How It All Goes Down
- Dad disappears a lot.
- Without money, Jeannette again resorts to scavenging for food.
- The whole family seems to be wasting away…except Mom.
- Brian pulls back the sheets in Mom's bed and finds she's been eating Hershey chocolate.
- The kids are steamed that they're all starving while Mom gorges herself on chocolate.
- "I can't help it," Mom says. "I'm a sugar addict, just like your father is an alcoholic" (3.11.22).
- Mom pretty much invented the term chocoholic.