CNU-My daughter-in-law said Christmas would be easier if I stayed away, and my son did not even raise his eyes to defend me. So I stayed home, alone, exactly as requested. …

again because letting crime stand inside a family does not preserve love. It hollows it out and teaches everyone watching that blood can purchase exemption from truth. I could not teach Susan and Raymond that lesson and still look at myself in the mirror Ellen once stood beside every morning for thirty-one years.

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