The Hardesty sisters had always been close. There was exactly three years difference in age between each of the three girls, and while growing up, what one did, the others were never far behind. Melissa Hardesty-Nasir had always been the more aggressive one of the three. Valedictorian of her class at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic girls school in an Irish neighborhood on Chicago’s northwest side—where she and both her sisters graduated— she attended Notre Dame University to get her pre-law undergraduate degree, and then went on to graduate magna c*m laude from Harvard University’s School of Law. Her family was convinced she had everything going for her, but that had been thrown into doubt in the eyes of at least her sisters when she met and fell in love with the guy her youngest sister, M
