“I don’t know.”
She said she’d confronted him
about it, and he’d gone off on some
nonsense about the world needing
to learn to respect him.
“He thinks he’s the policeman
of the world,” she said. “And that’s
the problem with the world. We
have people who cannot police
themselves, so they want to police
everyone else around them.”
Not long after that, I moved
out. The atmosphere had become
toxic for me. I’d reached the point
where I was as big as Abel. Big
enough to punch back. A father
does not fear retribution from his