I Faked Bankruptcy After Selling My Company for $15 Million and Exposed My Husband’s Family

of illness and death to seize what belonged to others. She had seen it many times, she told me, and it followed patterns, and the pattern I described was familiar to her, and that familiarity was itself a comfort, because it meant I was not imagining it and not alone.

Ruth was careful, and methodical, and she taught me a great deal in a short time. continue reading …