True or False?

[RCMerchant]

No. Unless there's life after death for bugs.

I'll say true, and also speculate a British guy named Bear secretly saw you do it, and you inspired him to take up the career that made him famous.

It is true. Once when I was sitting on a bench in Poe Park with my brother, and once sitting on my porch with my stepson Jim.

[Allhallowsday]

A man bearing my family name executed CHARLES I of England.

[RCMerchant]

Of course! I think!

[ER]

A. I have the ashes of a man who spent most of his life sentence in prison wanting me dead.

B. If I do have them, it isn't so I can gloat over them like some trophy.

C. I've never in my life been called on to betray another human being like I was called on to betray this man.

D. Even dead he remains a threat.

E. I sometimes say I sold my soul to the people I used to work for.

F. I am in a gloomy mood this morning amid domestic strife.

G. If you've guessed this far, I'm amazed.

[RCMerchant]

I'll say true- seems like a trick question.

[ER]

Yep, true.

[RCMerchant]

Ok- so who is this guy???  

[ER]

Crazy guy I knew about twenty years ago. I'm just rattled over my husband and oldest daughter undertaking what they thought was a good deed to spare me hurt and which has upset me. Got me thinking about that man and other stuff. It'll pass.

[Allhallowsday]

Crazy guy I knew about twenty years ago. I'm just rattled over my husband and oldest daughter undertaking what they thought was a good deed to spare me hurt and which has upset me. Got me thinking about that man and other stuff. It'll pass.

That's quite the skeleton of a story. 
This "crazy guy" went to prison in a crime against you?  He died there?  How did you obtain remains?  Why are you rattled at your family?

[ER]

Crazy guy I knew about twenty years ago. I'm just rattled over my husband and oldest daughter undertaking what they thought was a good deed to spare me hurt and which has upset me. Got me thinking about that man and other stuff. It'll pass.

That's quite the skeleton of a story.  
This "crazy guy" went to prison in a crime against you?  He died there?  How did you obtain remains?  Why are you rattled at your family?

He went to prison for numerous crimes that weren't connected to me, I testified against him. He was murdered there. I got his ashes by asking for them. I'm rattled because my dog got put to sleep without me being told it was going to happen.

[Allhallowsday]

... I'm rattled because my dog got put to sleep without me being told it was going to happen.

I am sorry to read that.  How old was your dog? 

[ER]

... I'm rattled because my dog got put to sleep without me being told it was going to happen.

I am sorry to read that.  How old was your dog?  

Only four. He had an aggressive cancer that was only diagnosed last week. We got him and his brother at the same time, and his brother won't stop trying to find him. It's sad.

And thank you.

[Allhallowsday]

Why did family keep it from you?  Purebred or shelter baby?   I am sorry. I know that hurt.

[Allhallowsday]

A man bearing my family name executed CHARLES I of England.

Of course! I think!

Did not see your response.  By the way, it is true. 

[ER]

Why did family keep it from you?  Purebred or shelter baby?   I am sorry. I know that hurt.

He was a black lab, and his name was Bojack.

They were trying to make it easier on me, and spare me something horrible. Since he was diagnosed we'd disagreed, my husband and my oldest went with what the vet said, that his cancer was terminal and he was in pain and there was no hope of recovery, but I said no, not yet. I have never been completely at peace with putting down a dog, with a killing a friend in other words, with just taking ownership of an animal's life like that, even if I know the reasoning for it. I said he still had at least a little more time. But without telling me, when I was not home, they took him to the vet and I only found out later, which was not only a painful shock and I thought just horrible to do, not even let me be with him then....it was just so....

Anyway. It was hard. And his brother missing him and looking at us asking with his eyes where he is, it just breaks my heart. But mad and hurt as I am, all I can do now is get over it. There's nothing else.