He is now retired.

He was never, at any point, remotely as wealthy as our family mythology required him to be; he had a good salary and a house in Granite Bay bought in 1998 and a boat he sold in 2014.

The Mercedes was a lease and it was on his company’s fleet plan.

He was divorced in 2007 and has two sons in their thirties, one in Seattle and one in Sacramento, and four grandchildren, and one of his sons has not spoken to him since 2011 over what happened with Maren, which I did not know until that afternoon and which reorganized a number of things for me.

He knew about our six daughters from the second month.