Lukas remembers his father's drunken collapses and death; Bernard describes the man he knew as good but stern.
Bernard Holland said he had known Lukas's father and considered him a good man. Lukas's own memories associate his father with passing out on the kitchen floor or in the bathroom, drinking tub gin, and eventually being buried beneath potatoes.
In a later account, Bernard describes Lukas's father as stern.
He is Lukas's deceased father, remembered differently by his son and Bernard.
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