Hearing her speak of her mom he scooted closer to her.

"Addiction is a hard thing to deal with.  Lost my brother in a car accident, he was 24.  Lots of people know that but the truth of the matter was.  He was drunk with his buddy who was looking for pills.  There was a jog in the road, his friend yelled out curve thinking they were gonna drive off of the road.  My brother swerved to try to make it.  He rolled 7 times doing 70 miles per hour and he was ejected from the car."

He goes silent.

"Driving down a back road with bad headlights, while it was raining and drunk.  My mom knew one day she would get a call about him being arrested or in the hospital.  She never thought it would be that terrible.  She thought maybe he would be banged up and be able to leave.  November, 6th, 2002, that was the day of the accident.  November 11th we laid him to rest finally..."

He puts his hand over his mouth.

"I always keep that in my mind cuz I love drinking but I don't want to get into it so heavy that something like that happens to me.  God knows how hard my mom took it when we lost him."