"Right. That's where they're taking the children." When I don't say anything, he stresses, "Look, Sally, I've read about this, I've talked to people about it, and I've seen evidence. I know. I know." Crazy Pete has not always been this way. My neighbor, who used to take piano lessons right after Pete at Mrs. Fothergill's when they were young, said it was only after Pete turned sixteen and refused to play anything but "Tara's Theme" from Gone with the Wind—over and over and over—that people began to suspect he might be slipping a cog or two.

