Chapter 31

“Yeah. Give me that letter. I’m ready to read it now.” Mickey handed the letter to Chris, who read it slowly and carefully.

“Fuck! You were absolutely right, and she talks so clinically when she describes what she was doing. Somehow that makes it more disgusting than it would have been otherwise.”

“Yeah, how does the mind of a human being get so warped?”

“There’s an easy one-word answer to that—alcohol. Too much of it can damage the brain, often permanently, and she was drunk for much of her life, except for the last eleven years.”

“I don’t know what to say to that, babe.”

“There’s not a lot to be said, Mick. It is what it is.”

“Yeah.”

“The last two sentences are really what got me, though,” Chris said.

“What did it say? Oh, never mind. I remember.”