EponymousBosh
Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell!
He got sober in the 90s, but Elton John was notorious for using shit-tons of cocaine back in the day and was an alcoholic as well.
I don't know, but apparently people had some way of managing.
the tribe will leave me behind on the next migration when I'm too old and weak to keep up.
FWIW, this part is almost certainly not true.
https://news.usask.ca/articles/research/2017/ancient-spinal-injury-a-story-of-survival.php
These are just a handful of these types of stories, there's loads more if you want to search for them. But the upshot is: your family or tribe would have taken care of you to the best of their ability, for as long as they could, and you would have been given a decent burial when you died.
Your best bet might be to try and pivot to in-person college/university if possible. You didn't say where you are in the world, but in the US, most schools will have on-campus housing you'd be able to stay in for most of the year. The financial part is always the limiting factor of course, but considering how violent your brother can get, it may be worth it. It's a lot easier to recover from student loan debt than being dead.
Which version? Barrett, Waters, or Gilmour?
Really surprised no one's mentioned Everclear, but that might just be because no one thinks about Everclear that much
Hemp farmers, back to the unemployment office...
It's specifically the fact that it's family that makes it hard for me to buy that it's isolated (hence "in this case"). It's possible for sure, but you don't usually get "my dad picklocked my bedroom door to try and catch me jerking off" without a shitload of other family weirdness.
I don't see what the problem is. It's a perfectly cromulent word.
The odds of these two deeply weird incidents being isolated in a case like this is about 1%