Joe leaned forward, his elbows on the table. “What was the mistake?” Pearl paused for only a second. She was getting too old to sugarcoat things, so she just came out with it. “Your father believes that I killed someone.” The statement clearly took him by surprise. Joe appeared dumbstruck for a moment, and then he asked, “Did you?” “Not on purpose.”
This is why family secrets stay hidden. But with the march of time they can produce and infection that needs laid open and healed.
