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Some stories do not need to include the disclaimer, “There was alcohol involved.” But this is High Journalism, friends and neighbors, and so, in case there is any doubt: There was alcohol involved.
And there was a fire.
My memory of most of these things, which happened when I was in elementary school, is fairly vivid and detailed, to such an extent that I sometimes suspect that I am filling in this or that element in a literary or cinematic way, but the dates are fuzzy: This would have been the very late 1970s or very early 1980s, no earlier than 1978 and no later than 1982.
