" Exactly! My grandfather intentionally started an argument with paramilitary murderers in order to give me an opportunity to slip away. He was shot t... death minutes later. I felt the exact same guilt... The dream I just had was a sharp memory from that time, two days after he was murdered. I was alone, and frightened to death, and my mind was filled with despair and loss, and my heart was full of hate."David was just silent for a moment, absorbing what Laura had said. "Laura, these must be. " Mom said. She came back and kissed me again, on theforehead. "I have to rock Rachel to sleep." "But, Mo-om!" I said. "What about you watching television with me andDaddy?" "Hon." Mom said to Daddy. "It's okay, sport." Daddy said to me. "You and me will watchtelevision together." "But I always sit on Mommy's lap to watch television." I protested. "But you're a big boy now." Daddy said. "Getting too old to sit onMommy's lap any longer." "No more?" I whined. "Now,. By rights his father should be doing this, most of this shit was his anyway, but since he'd run off with his secretary he wasn't around much these days. Jason shook his head, over a year later and he still couldn't quite believe his own dad could be such a cliche.He sighs hefting a box of video cassettes labeled Grandma's soaps. He's already been at this for hours and he's barely made a dent. And after he's done here he still had the garage to do and after that the attic as well.Muttering under. " She turned to her daughters and yelled, "As for you two bitches, you're both grounded for the rest of the school year. No more phone. No more TV. No more allowance. How could you two humiliate me that way? Her, I understand. I know she put you up to it, but you both have minds of your own. You could have said, no. Well, you'll wish you had."She then turned to John and said in a softer, more hurt than angry tone, "And you, how could you do that to me? You hurt me, John. You humiliated me." She.