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     That night, Ed Dillinger Jr. went home to his penthouse apartment, and poured himself a glass of very expensive French wine.  He had a lot to think about after the Board of Directors meeting, and getting just a bit drunk was sounding very appealing right now.     Ed remembered very vividly the day, 29 years ago, when his mom told him that Dad wasn’t coming home for a while.  His five-year-old self hadn’t understood why his mom was crying, why daddy couldn’t come home, and so had cried also, in confusion and fear.     Mom didn’t take him with her to Dad’s trial, so all Ed remembered of the many days befor

     That night, Ed Dillinger Jr. went home to his penthouse apartment, and poured himself a glass of very expensive French wine.  He had a lot to think about after the Board of Directors meeting, and getting just a bit drunk was sounding very appealing right now.     Ed remembered very vividly the day, 29 years ago, when his mom told him that Dad wasn’t coming home for a while.  His five-year-old self hadn’t understood why his mom was crying, why daddy couldn’t come home, and so had cried also, in confusion and fear.     Mom didn’t take him with her to Dad’s trial, so all Ed remembered of the many days befor

Charlie Eppes hugged his plushy of Albert Einstein close to his chest as visions of alien invasions cross his mind over and over again. He shouldn't have sneaked into the room where Don and his older friends were watching horror movies. His older brother was thirteen years old, and he wasn't afraid of anything. His stony, baseball player face said it all. Still nursing the black eye and torn lower lip that a 5th grade bully had given him, Charlie had snuck inside the dark living room. Don had warned him not to come in and had deliberately shut the door in his little brother's face. But, Charlie wanted to prove to Don that not only could he be