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Toby Rice Drews was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; grew up in an alcoholic home, where there was major violence, drinking, gambling addiction, and poverty. Her father was the Congressional Aide and ghost-writer for John Phillip Hill, a Republican Congressman, in Baltimore, Maryland, for 14 years.
Toby lost her father when she was 12 years old, to his late-stage alcoholism.
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Her sister, also a published author, wrote books on aging and grief issues. Toby, the youngest child in her family (15 years younger than her oldest sister), was never told by her mother that her father had been a writer and Congressional Aide.
She learned about her father's work from others. Her mother always just referred to him as "that bum, that drunk''.
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Toby does not remember her father ever being sober. But she still misses him. She understands her mother's anger that stayed with her until she died... but Toby wanted to help others who were married to alcoholics, to be able to fin