My father looks around the room and raises his glass of champagne high Friends and family Im so glad youre all here today Because theres something Ive been wanting to share with youampnbspThe way my stepmothers looking at him I can tell right away Dads gone offscript He looks out over us all and rubs his hand across his sweatbeaded forehead Hes shaking I notice And then he looks my way and his glance is absolutely piercing Thats what Im thinking in the moment that his knees suddenly buckle and the glass drops from his hand It smashes like a grenade an explosion of deafening silenceampnbspMy father is lying faceforward in the grassampnbspSomebody call an ambulance a voice shrieksampnbspAnd the world as I know it ends Dinah Spencer is back in her childhood home for one stressful weekend Its the twentyfiveyear anniversary of her fathers marriage to her stepmother Those twentyfive years havent all been happy ones for middle child Dinah but shes getting ready to put the past behind her keeping the bonds of family strong for her own daughter Josies sake until her beloved dad collapses in the middle of his anniversary speechIn the wake of her fathers shocking cardiac arrest youngest...
