My Boo Radley.... i have one?

Here it goes,
The closest person in my life that I can relate to Boo Radley from TKAM would probably have to be my dad. From my earliest remembrances of childhood until about four years ago my dad had gotten progressively deeper into drug and alcohol abuse. He just graduated court mandated drug/alcohol counseling/rehab after close to 650 days of treatment three months ago, and is an entirely changed man. Through this he has taught me how debilitating and life-destroying the abuse of drugs and alcohol can be, and how it can destroy homes and families.

Whenever I saw people at middle school hiding a little ganja in their shoe or lighting up on the trail behind the track, and when I was tempted to engage in said behaviors, it was the thought of what my dad was (at the time 'is') that helped me make the decision to just walk away. Thankfully, he's now a responsible father of four, and a man I can look up to, as opposed to being a figurehead of what i shouldn't be. In this way he is like boo, in the sense that what is unknown and not understood can in the end become known and help teach you important morals and life skills.