Reunion | Characters

Bernie Cary
Bernie Cary is a fifty-three-year-old recovering alcoholic. He is the father of Carol, whom he hasn’t seen since he divorced Carol’s mother twenty years earlier. He tells Carol he had wanted to see her all those years, but that her mother initiated a court order forbidding him from seeing Carol. He mentions that he considered contacting Carol when she turned twenty-one, but did not do so. Bernie admits that he was scared by the prospect of meeting Carol at this point, but he seems pleased that she is there. Bernie spent most of his adult life as an alcoholic,...

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