> I don't think I'm the lone truther, or sole person who struggled with family death (only 2 of the 11 people in the two generations above mine still live) who has had this experience. Toss in some overextended use of alcohol and some financial roller coasters and it's been a hell of a decade.

Well you just summed up my life in a nut shell. both my parents died by the time i was 25, me and my father in law both like to drink so we are probably pretty toxic to be around each other with a case of beer in a 100 mile radious and i have been on this roller coaster since i was a kid. I want off. Will steemit help me do that? I hope so.