![]() ![]() You cannot understand how a man, a normal man, a man like you and me, could do such a terrible thing. ![]() Now and then, I drive out there and sit in my car, and wonder, why not let it go? Why not let LaRiviere buy it and build the condominiums he wants there? We want to believe Wade died that same November, froze to death on a bench or a sidewalk. The house is still in Wade's name, and I keep paying taxes on it. It is an economic zone between Littleton and Catamount. The community of Lawford, as such, no longer exists. The Parker Mountain Ski Resort is now advertised across the country. LaRiviere and Mel Gordon were indeed in business. The link between Jack and Twombley, LaRiviere and Mel Gordon existed only in Wade's wild imaginings. Wade killed Jack, just as surely as Jack did not kill Evan Twombley, even accidentally. Jack's truck turned up three days later in a shopping mall in Toronto. ![]() It's how we keep from destroying in turn our own children and terrorizing the women who have the misfortune to love us how we absent ourselves from the tradition of male violence how we decline the seduction of revenge. Our stories, Wade's and mine, describe the lives of the boys and men for thousands of years: boys who were beaten by their fathers, whose capacity for love and trust was crippled almost at birth, men whose best hope for connection with other human beings lay in detachment, as if life were over. All of Lawford, all of New Hampshire, some of Massachusetts. Rolfe Whitehouse: The historical facts are known by everyone. ![]()
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