The supposed paper-mill money that Pat had told me about was bullshit. So far as I could tell, they’d never been invested in any mill. Bryce Lermond’s father, Kevin Lermond, was indeed a West Point man, but his wife, Marilyn, was a doctor, with degrees from the University of New England and Northeastern. She’d once held a teaching fellowship at a research hospital in Boston. Her program there had been focused in vestibular and balance studies. Among the patients serviced by the program were epileptics and seizure sufferers. When Marilyn Lermond’s husband left the Army and she left her practice
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