“I … I don’t know. I mean he was my son. Our son. But what he was doing was wrong. I have to believe that. Because if I don’t, then everything I did was a mistake,” Christine said. She put her fist to her mouth and moaned. “It was a mistake, Chrissy. We both made a lot of mistakes with him. He wasn’t abhorrent. He wasn’t sacrilegious. He was just Derek. That should’ve been enough for both of us,” Buddy Lee said. He said it with a tenderness he didn’t think himself capable of anymore. At least not with her.
