M. Gessen
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And did you know what, once everybody left, did you have any idea what he had been arrested for?
And did you have any idea who he might have hired somebody to murder?
Alan, it seemed, had hired someone to kill Priscilla.
Some of us took the news in faster than others.
The day after Alan's arrest, my brother Keith and I had a fight over the Justice Department press release, which identified the target only as P.C.
I was saying that it was obviously Priscilla, whose last name begins with a C. He was saying that it was obviously not Priscilla.
Lena kept telling everyone that Alan had been set up by business rivals or Russian agents or the FBI or someone.
But over the course of a few days, it sank in.
My cousin had been caught hiring someone to murder his ex-wife, the mother of his children.
It's not that I felt bad for Alan or Lena, it's just, how does something like this happen?
How had it happened right here in my family, in between our silly dinners and chess games and kids' birthday parties?