But when the truth comes out, he takes my hand in his and gives it a squeeze. Good girl, Casey, he tells me. She deserved it. I almost forgot that this was a man who beat another man badly enough to land him in the hospital. That’s why he went to prison in the first place. He admits to me that the man he assaulted was not just a random man in the bar. He had discovered this man was sleeping with his girlfriend—my mother.
