Defending Jacob
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At some point as adults we cease to be our parents’ children and we become our children’s parents instead.
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Why risk the rare happy marriage—rarer still, a love marriage that endures—for something as common and as toxic as complete, unthinking, transparent honesty?
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Suspicion, once it started to corkscrew itself into my thoughts, made me experience everything twice: as questing prosecutor and as anxious father, one after the truth, the other terrified of it.
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In the end, the lawyers and judges happily step aside and hand the entire process over to a dozen complete amateurs.