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. …

the shells.”

A shaky breath.

“Yes.”

“And you kept going.”

He started crying then, not dramatically, not like a child, but with the exhausted, ashamed helplessness of a grown man whose private rationalizations have just been dragged under fluorescent light.

“Dad, what am I supposed to do?”

For one brutal second I was not a retired prosecutor or the complainant continue reading …