Genny became intimately familiar with Brad and his past while the next couple of months crept by. As she discussed her feelings of bereavement with him, he began to open up to her as well. He entered his first foster home at the age of eight years old. His mother became addicted to drugs and lost her parental rights. His father, who he barely remembered, served in the army and died during the Gulf War when he was only five.

He had been bounced from one family to another since entering the system. As a teenager, he ended up in a group home until he graduated. After his books started to sell, he received enough money to hire a private investigator to locate his mother and was disappointed to find her deceased.

Genny learned Brad suffered from a rare form of leukemia in remission. His wife le...

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