Dana testified that her father rehearsed it with her in the truck for two hours in a church parking lot before they went in. She said he told her it was the only way to keep the family together. She said he told her that her mother’s cancer treatment was eleven thousand dollars a year and that none of that happened if he went away.
She said he told her the man they were going to name was trash anyway. Had a record. Would end up inside eventually for something else.
She was nineteen.
I want to be careful here, because I have had a long time to think about this part and I have landed in a different place than I expected to.
She was nineteen, and she was wrong, and I lost twenty-three years.
Both of those are true at the same time and neither one cancels the other out.
