“Why’d you leave it for me to find?” I asked.
“I felt like you should read it,” she answered.
“I read my own. Yours wasn’t mine to read,” I said.
“Josh stopped ya, huh?” she laughed. “Do you want to know what it said?”
I lit another cigarette. “You smoke too much,” she commented.
“Is that what it said?” I asked mockingly.
“No,” she said, as she leaned her body in closer to look directly at me. “It said to help you. When the time came, that you would come to me for assistance, that you wouldn’t be do it alone. She begged me to help you.”
“Was that man our father?” I asked.
“Yes, the only memory I have of him is when he left us. You were just a baby. He left us all alone,” she answered. “Too bad he was a d**k, he was good-looking, no?”
I let out a laugh. “Yes, he was. Have you ever
