My brother remained in denial. We lost our hearing when I was six and he four in the same V2 rocket explosion in World War II in England. My brother refused to wear the hearing aids he bought, deeply resenting their high cost. My brother was an alcoholic. My brother died.
Alcoholics can free themselves into conversion, metanoia , through the telling of tales.
And so can their loved ones. As did Rose . But those who cannot hear, cannot hear the healing stories.