CHAPTER 7
Do you ever feel guilty at times for being happy? When with the brutal assistance of hindsight, you realize you were just setting yourself up for misery? I think about that sometimes. Or how God feels when we’re about to destroy our lives, but we’re so excited about it. Like Chris’s parents. They had that storybook romance going on, the whole Romeo and Juliette thing with her being the daughter of migrant workers (undocumented, by the way) and him being the son of the largest orchard owner in the county. The pictures from their wedding day are absolutely stunning. I’ve never seen two people beaming at each other with so much love.
And from what Chris says, every day since then has been abject misery for them both. I hate to make an example of their misfortunes, because when the
