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StarCat Quacking is generally used as a form of manipulation.
But if he wasn't trying to get you to do anything, feel any particular way for his benefit, or anything like then, then no, he wasn't quacking then.
I am sure you can find "enough" as well. Alcoholics are flawed, imperfect people, but every once in awhile someone beautiful can shine through, and those are the memories I hold dear.
Thank you for clarifying. As for finding those moments where someone beautiful shined through, I'll have to keep looking. The moments that pop into my head are beautiful until I remember that he was blacked out. :/
As much as I don't think he was trying to manipulate me in those moments, it's hard to find joy in them when you're driving his inebriated self to his room at the downtown Motel 6 afterwards...
Thanks for the input. I'll keep looking...