My dad nodded. "I thought I had it all figured out. My mom was the bad guy. She was a drug addict, she was crazy, she couldn't take care of us, and she tried to kidnap us. That's what we were told. That's what we believed." I swallowed. "But that wasn't the entire story, was it?"
Children should not be pitted against one or the other parent. Of course, in this case it was far more sinister.

