Chapter 22: Carl’s Family
October 16, 2015
I learned more about his family. His mother, Luanne was an amateur watercolorist, drove better than his father, and was currently dating a woman by the name of Chantel Meadows. Luanne was fifty-nine years old, enjoyed biking, baking, and summertime parades. Her lover, Chantel, owned a small island off Maine called Little Bear Hill. The two women had visited the island several times in the summer, enjoying weekends away from their Bangor lives and Luanne’s seamstress shop.
Curiosity had killed the cat numerous times and I had asked Carl, “Did your mother’s affair with another woman break your parents’ marriage apart?”
“I don’t know the details behind that. Maybe. Maybe not. I try not to put too much thought into the past.”
“Was Chantel in the
