Stasia Shepard

And that was supposedly his life's work.

And it was vast.

I mean, there were boxes there, huge boxes of volumes of indexes and things he was working on in books.

He used to get on the phone with all kinds of people and say, you didn't get the check?

What?

The post office, he would constantly rail against the post office.

So as a little girl, I also became very militant against the post office.

I also would rail against the post office.

And if I had a pen pal or a friend that I was writing a letter to, I'd always write on the outside of the envelope, you better deliver this letter.

You know, I was like enraged with the post office that they wouldn't deliver letters because I just thought they're constantly throwing my dad under the bus and not mailing his checks.

And the phone rang.

So I picked it up.

I said hello.

His voice was shaking, and I could tell he was elderly.

And he just sounded like a mean old man to me.

He scared me.

And he told me,

That my father took his life savings.

The phone is in my ear and he's saying, your father's a crook.

Did you know that?