As he stood before me reading his essay, his voice cracking and his hands trembling, he said that he worried that he had become an alcoholic like his mom, who had died a couple of months prior due to alcohol-related liver disease.
Enquanto ele lia para mim sua redação, com a voz falhando e as mãos tremendo, me disse que receava ter se tornado um alcoólatra, como sua mãe, que morrera alguns meses antes por doenças hepáticas relacionadas ao álcool.