I'm Trying To Be Less Bombastic. I

I Am A Writer. I Could Not Afford To Take 15 Months Off From My Writing Career To Play Detective.

Closure Is A Preposterous Concept Worthy Of The Worst Aspects Of American Daytime Tv.

I Don't Want To Recover From Writing This Book [the Onion]. I Feel Very Poised. I Feel Like I'm With My Mother For The First Time Ever. I Feel Like I've Confronted Her, And The Confrontation Goes On.

The Truth Of The Matter Is, You Lose A Parent To Murder When You're 10 Years Old, And In Fact At The Time Of The Murder You Hate Your Lost Parent, My Mother In My Case.

And You Love To Read, You Love To Escape, Right?