There are no monsters, villains, or bad guys. Eddie seems to know this. There are only folks who carry unspeakable pain. There are among us the profoundly traumatized who deal in the currency of damage. And there are those whose minds are ill, whose sickness chases them every day. But there are no bad guys. Jesus seems to suggest that there are no exceptions to this. Yet it’s hard for us to believe him. At her sentencing to life without the possibility of parole, a young woman states simply: “I did what they say I did, but I’m not who they say I am.”
