“Why do you act like this is so normal?” Suzanne squeezed her nose with her fingers. Bernie let out a sigh and said, “Because it is, Suzanne.” “Oh, man, not for me, it isn’t. I feel like I’ve set off a bomb in my life. For years I felt like I was safe on an— I don’t know, like an island. I had floated away from all those troubles that poor Doyle had, I was safe on my island with my own family, my husband and my boys, and now I’ve blown it up.”
