Teacher:Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: "Another of dad's embarrassing failures might cause me to slip back into the alcoholic fog that marred my childhood, had any such fog actually existed, which it did not."
Student:
"Another embarrassment from dad might make me return to an alcoholic fog, which didn't exist, that marred my childhood."