Born a Crime

him up, put the boy in his car, and
drove away. As they drove, Isaac
turned to his dad.
“Dad, why did you kill Mom?”
he asked, at that point assuming,
as we all did, that my mom was
dead.
“Because I’m very unhappy,”
Abel replied. “Because I’m very
sad.”
“Yeah, but you shouldn’t kill
Mom. Where are we going now?”
“I’m going to drop you off at
your uncle’s house.”
“And where are you going?”
“I’m going to kill myself.”
“But don’t kill yourself, Dad.”
“No, I’m going to kill myself.”
The uncle Abel was talking
about was not a real uncle but a