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// Beer 
// Story: Words Unspoken 
// by wille179 
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Hondo Flanks to Cookie Crumbles:


Yes, Dear.






Hondo Flanks had always been a drinker. Never heavy, just a beer or two every night since he had been old enough to drink, and only after his daughters had gone to bed. He held a good job, he had a loving wife, and had a nice home. Even when Rarity, his eldest, had moved out, he never drank more than two beers a night. They were fun drinks; he had nothing he wanted to forget or suppress like a binge drinker.

It was shortly after his second daughter, Sweetie Bell, had moved to Canterlot to attend university did things change. His wife passed away suddenly and without warning. Though Rarity was only across town, she couldn't fill the hole in his heart. It didn't work that way.

Months passed, and he was incredibly lonely. As his grief faded, he found himself in bars trying to pick up other mares, but without luck. And each time he came back, he would spend just a little more time and a little more money on alcohol.

And one night, a year from Cookie Crumbles's death, he wound up so drunk that his life... just slipped away.