It Wasn’t Hard To Ingest

It could be assumed that if anyone had heard this from his or her adoptive mom, it would be huge news. But Tim wrote that, “Honestly, I found it relatively easy to process. At that stage, my relationship with her was already quite established. I viewed her naturally as my mother. I didn’t call her by her first name, I called her mum, and I was closer to her than most of my other brothers. It all just seemed right to me.”

Regretting It

Unfortunately, Peggy would berate herself for telling Tim the truth. The morning after she told him, she got up and left the house, making Tim and his brothers worry. Tim shared, “She wasn’t in bed, and we drove round Cushendall looking for her. We found her with her shoes in her hand, walking towards Belfast. She was ferociously angry when she got into the car. Later, in 2000, I asked her, ‘Why did you tell me then? What was it about that day?’ ” To which she simply replied, “Too much vodka.”