My son did not lower the microphone.

He reached into the pocket of his blazer, and he pulled out a small black USB drive, and he held it up so the room could see it.

“And my mom isn’t leaving with nothing,” he said.

“Because I copied everything off my dad’s secret phone.” For the first time that night, the triumphant smile fell off my husband’s face.

And then Tommy leaned into the microphone and said the thing that turned the whole night around: “And there’s stuff on here that even my mom doesn’t know about yet.”