The Final Goodbye to the Past

er Lily's fifth birthday, and our San

ttered my world: "I wish Mommy and Daddy would d

uent divorce papers, the mere fifty-million-dollar check,

very own parents-echoed the same brutal sentiment:

uring her coma and raising Lily, yielde

onic illness, shattered repeatedly, leavin

loyalty

n nothing but a

mysterious entity offered an 'exit'

emed, was merely

rn, the highly respected screenwriter

ife, my ex-wife and daughter, ap

he game was