After Dad died, she became paranoid.

She hid money and threatened to disinherit me for helping.”

Lie number two.

I sat and listened to my son describe a woman who did not exist — a frightened, failing creature he had invented to replace me, because the invented woman could be managed, sold, and put away, and the real one could not.

It is a strange grief, to hear your child testify to your decline as though he wished it were true.

He was not lying to win.