Chapter 3. Self-Deception
“You have kids, don’t you, Tom?”
I was grateful for the simple question and felt the life come back to my face. “Why, yes, one actually. His name is Todd. He’s 16.”
“You remember how you felt when he was born—how it seemed to change your perspective on life?” Bud asked.
It had been a long while since I considered those early thoughts surrounding Todd’s birth. So much had happened since then that those memories had been swept downstream by a decade of bitter words and memories. Todd had been diagnosed as having attention deficit disorder (ADD), and it was impossible for me to think of Todd without feeling a disturbance in my soul. He was nothing but trouble and had been for years. But Bud’s question called me back to a sweeter ...
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