Or because everyone saw you do it?” Joe’s silence was the whole answer.

Tommy asked to end the visit early.

In the car home he told me he wasn’t ready to forgive his father, and I told him he didn’t have to be, and I told him the only thing I really needed him to carry out of all of it.

“Just don’t let the hurt they gave you turn you into someone who hurts people.

That’s the only way they win.”