Chapter 13: KerstinKerstin put her sunglasses on before touring the San Antonio mission San Conception, partly because of the sun and partly because her eyes were puffy still. She’d broken down after the barbecue last night and cried herself to sleep in her hotel room. Not for herself so much as for her mom and dad, correction, stepdad. Roughly the same age as Dale and Linda, her parents should still be enjoying retirement like they were, not be lying six feet under! Alois had been a good guy, liked by everyone, and he sure hadn’t deserved the stroke that felled him before he even hit fifty. And her mom, of course, had worked at her job until she became sick. She never made it to enjoy…Stop! Kerstin straightened up and inhaled and exhaled slowly as she’d learned in the one and only yoga cl
