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  1. I have wanted to read this book for awhile and just haven't gotten around to it yet. I completely agree that we can't possibly know what we would do in a situation until we find ourselves in it. When crises and tragedies befall us, we can't always act unemotionally. Good discussion, Brenda.

    1. I think some may be uncomfortable with the discussion topic. I know it's unsettling. But I think we would benefit from putting ourselves in someone else's shoes, as in a circumstance such as this. Life is always stranger than fiction.

  2. Cataclysmic is the word … and mind-bending wondering what a parent would do! .. having said that I am quite disgusted with the mother of the 'afflunenza' teen!

    1. Not sure what you're referring to. But the book gives you an altogether different feeling about the families of the defendant. After all, they didn't do anything. But they will have to live with the outcome.

    1. I'm maybe halfway thought the book. I don't know if it's going to be Jacob or this other guy the father is fixated on. Or someone else altogether.

  3. Wow! What a thing to have to consider, but any one of us who have children could go through the very same thing tomorrow! I think I would stand on the side of my child, I would refuse to believe such a thing. But yet I know in the corner of my mind I might wonder, is my child capable of such a thing? That sounds like a very good book.

  4. Someone very close to me was accused of something horrid. I believe in that person, period. But would I destroy possible evidence? I don't think so…..

    1. From what I read in this book, and the author is an attorney, people going to jail and people getting off is more of a crap shoot than we think. We like to think justice is served. But he makes it sound like it's very iffy business.

  5. I agree with Laura. It's unthinkable to be thrust into such a position – I don't think anyone ever knows just what they are capable of until it's real.

  6. I can't imaging being on either side of this issue. Either way it would destroy me. I know that I would be just about anything to protect my children and I also know I would never stop loving them no matter what they did. xo Laura

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