How do children of alcoholics cope with the past Alina's mother came home at night, her tongue was braided. It was impossible to understand what she says. “I undressed her. She repelled me, rested, - recalls Alina Petrova (the name was changed at the request of the heroine). - I put my mother in the bed, brought basins and water, cleaned her mess behind her. I studied in the sixth or seventh grade, I was unpleasant, all this annoyed me. I thought I would never drink.