Dr. Michaels had lost his son in combat. As if things hadn't been hard enough this past year, Rose had walked in on Grace and Sal a few weeks ago at the restaurant talking about Vincent being deployed to Iraq.
It'd been months since Rose had last asked Sal anything about Vince, so she'd been completely overwhelmed by the news. She'd already lost him once; she didn't even want to think of something happening to him out there. Seeing Dr. Michael's son's photo made that possibility seem all too real now. And to think all of this could've been avoided if he just hadn't weakened and gone back to his evil ways. If Vince truly loved Rose like he claimed, why the hell would he give into what he once called easy money?
Just as she'd begun once again to ponder obsessively about why, why, why like
