Reply #21: i put other: I don't know if i think so or not...

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Mom's sibs were/are all STILL old hippies, some of whom still 'grow their own'...
they've told me every other incriminating thing about mom that they could think of (including her 6-week marriage to someone before dad, etc...), so i'm sure that they would have let the beans spill on that,too, if any of them had any idea.

Yay for my aunts and uncle... keepers of embarrassing truths.

Dad was career Air Force, and he had a glaring alcohol problem up until i was 8 or so (after he'd retired from the AF)... my mom throwing him out for a week straightened him out 'til the day he died (17 years later). I can't picture him doing anything stronger, frankly.

If he was still alive, i think i would ask him, though. Unlike the relationship i have with mom (stilted at best... some bad history there), he and i could talk about anything. Heck, he's still the only one in my extended family who had seen all of my tattoos; Mom hates them, and kept trying to pressure him to have his one small one (a smiling devil face on his chest) removed. I think she'd still shit kittens if i ever showed up on the doorstep in a tank-top, and i've had all of them for 15+ yrs.