As he waited for his coals to light, John paced around the house. Sarah had extremely early hours in the morning for her news show, so she tended to arrive early and leave early so she could get to bed. It was part of his daughter’s rigidity. She kept to her schedule and didn’t deviate. In her personal life she liked hard walls and black-and-white opinions, strange for a TV news journalist whose profession required dealing with issues colored in constantly shifting shades of gray, he thought.
But even as he thought this, he realized he was wrong. Sarah was perfect for the FOX News affiliate where she worked. Unlike his, her politics were right wing, and she and her co-workers loved absolute positions, like the fact that older widowers shouldn’t fall in love with younger women. John sippe
