THEO I switched vehicles at home and drove to Cory’s school in my truck. He kept asking me to take him out on the back of the motorcycle, but it wasn’t safe. It wasn’t that I was a bad driver. Once you learned how to drive a tank, you could pretty much handle anything. But I didn’t trust other drivers to be as experienced or level-headed while on the road. Putting my boy at risk because of their stupidity wasn’t an option. Maybe I’d take him for a spin when he was older. Much older. Like twenty-one. And maybe not even then. Only a scattering of students were exiting the main doors of the school building, all dressed in their prim and proper uniforms. I personally wanted Cory to go to a public school. I went public, and I liked to think I turned out perfectly fine. But Cassandra had i

