Glenn race loved video games. He was 11 years old. It was April 22, 1991. He was in his

house. His eyes on the screen, his hands on the game. He was utterly unaware that from

this very moment, nothing in his life would ever be the same. Something was happening just

outside the door. I remember looking out the people into the garage and seeing my parents

talking. Now he looks back all these years later and struggles to remember. Did he hear

something? Did he sense the trouble? Memory, just out of reach. It was too late anyway. And maybe

it was better the boy not know what awful choices he and his sisters would one day be forced to make.

Glenn race in his sisters, Joanna Katelyn lived in a perfectly ordinary suburb, though other

children might well have been beaten for their neighbor. California's famous magic mountain.

The parents he had seen through the people were John and Anne race. They had been married 19 years.

He was an ex-chair of Stepity. She, a former teacher, now a stay-at-home soccerman.

Anyone would have thought they were happy. Didn't they all have a wonderful time at Glenn's

cousins wedding just the week before he looked through the people? Didn't his parents dance happily

together? Who could have known about the secret and was keeping from her unsuspecting husband?

She told me that she was thinking about leaving John. Long before it happened Anne revealed her

feelings to a select few in her church women's group. Something was wrong with her marriage.

She said, well, I don't feel like I love him anymore. I'm tired of his tightness. He's tight with

money. This is Anne's close friend, Diane Wood, a woman who new-ands organized deliberate ways.

Very well. Very organized, very meticulous, planned everything. She knew what she was going to do

when and where she put things and I'm off looking for where, where to put this, where to put that.

Exactly where it was, exactly. Diane knew that in the days after the family wedding, Anne had

completed a careful secret plan to leave John race. She'd researched their finances so she knew

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