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.
Și cum stătea în fața mea, citind eseul, cu glasul stins și mâinile tremurânde, a spus că era îngrijorat să nu devină  un alcoolic, aidoma mamei sale care murise recent de o boală de ficat din cauza consumului de alcool.