It was during the fourth week of my eavesdropping when it turned tragic or as Sister Agnes laments during prayer service, “The devil’s in the house!

Time’s up, Mr. Andersen, I’m afraid.” Alyssa noticed his hesitation. “You should know an important clause in our agreement . . . you attorneys call it what, full disclosure? You give me $25,000 before I leave this office, or, well, I'll just have to ring up Heather again and let her in on a secret, a secret about something that happened in Chinatown not even three weeks ago. Hmmm…I wonder what she would think.

Dad was the glue to the broken pieces of our family.