Born a Crime

had had enough. She was willing to
help him, but not if he was going to
drink all the profits. She had always
been independent, self-sufficient,
but she’d lost that part of herself at
the mercy of someone else’s failed
dream. At a certain point she said,
“I can’t do this anymore. I’m out of
this. I’m done.” She went out and
got a job as a secretary with a real-
estate developer, and somehow,
between that and borrowing against
whatever equity was left in Abel’s
workshop, she was able to get us
the house in Highlands North. We
moved, the workshop was seized by
Abel’s creditors, and that was the