Then he begged for another chance.

I never answered a single one.

Camryn had, in fact, ended up in the emergency room with a blood pressure crisis brought on by her public humiliation. But her hospital stay created a problem nobody had anticipated.

Marvin rushed to the pharmacy to buy her prescriptions and discovered he had almost no cash. He couldn’t remember the PIN for the account where his mother kept all his savings.

And Camryn — hooked to an IV, stubborn and furious — refused to give him back his own debit card.

In front of several stunned nurses, mother and son had a screaming argument in the middle of the ward.