“What do you mean?”
“Ah, Rube ... .” He sighed. "You have a way of moving on. I've in no way viewed every body who may want to shut herself off so without problems from the humans round her.
“It isn't easy.”
He smiled grimly. “You made it appear easy. You went off to California and started a new life except any of us ... however after a while, it was our fault, Caroline's and mine. We did not call adequate ... or not on the right days ... or we did not say the right things when we did call. And you moved farther and farther away. You did not come to my wedding ceremony or even name when your brother was once born or come to see Caroline when she suffered through that terrible labor. But someway that was our fault, too. We abandoned you. Now, you choose to stir up an ancient pot. Will yo
