I explored my surroundings in search of Janis, completely ignored except by some guy who said, loud enough for all to hear, “What kind of parent would bring a child to this place? It’s shameful.” I whipped around with a dirty look and saw it was only Uncle Earl McGrath, madly giggling at his own prank. Earl was a family friend I’d met a year earlier at a party we gave on Christmas Day for people who had nowhere to go.
