Grammar Quiz! Correct and rewrite this paragraph in 1982 shortly after my mothers first hospitalization for alcoholism my parents marriage broke apart nearly thirty years later my mother passed away from her addiction I saw my father for the first time since the divorce he had remarried two decades earlier during that time in which my mother had passed away he and me hadnt been close he had lived off and on in florence italy and had tried many times to persuade me to visit I had always refused for years and held his abandonment of my mother against him however this past winter i finally took him up on the invitation for a week he showed me florence on our last night together we ate at a restaurant where he was greeted as professor i was sitting in that little restaurant by the arno river listening to him tell me about the life he had made with my stepmother I could feel the old hatred fading away