At the very least, the Peppers should have shown up alone once they realized that he had run off without warning. Instead, it was left to Ed to telephone the Peppers that morning to find out why they were running so late. There were many families like Henry’s. People who had perfected the art of shying away from blame. They did not understand that as a result of Henry’s failure to accept his responsibility in this matter, the Freeman family, automatically, would be considered suspect. Because this was the subtext of every question that had been asked in the media since the afternoon that their
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