GERALD

When dad told me he had been suspecting mom was cheating on him with some strange caller, I couldn't believe it one bit. I didn't think mom could do such a thing. I knew mom could be crazy and do wild things, but it never clicked in me that she'd be capable of cheating on dad one day, by sleeping with someone else.

I couldn't see the face of the man mom was having an affair with, on the picture, but I could tell he was younger than mom. He appeared young, possibly in his early thirties or late twenties. How could mom even stoop so low to have...