Tom Junod

There's a transaction that's going on.

I give him the shot glass and he says, anything else?

And I say, yeah.

Who was this woman of my father's in Florida?

And then everything changes.

But what he says is, so you know.

Yeah.

Because I wouldn't have told you if you didn't know.

Right.

And that's what enables me to get in and to find out

Well, what her name was.

And that's the route that I take throughout the rest of the book, because what I am trying to find out something not just not just right about my dad.

There's a the world that my father left behind is a world that I try to investigate and infiltrate.

Well, in this book, you know, finding out the secrets does...

require me to act and the way that i do act is i i try to find out you know the the people that my father sort of left behind yeah and you know that that to me ultimately becomes for me um whenever i sort of uh ask myself about like did i do the right thing with this book to me the the proof that i did the right thing you know

It exists.

And she, and she, you know, more to the point, she exists.

I have a, I have a, you know, I have sister that I find at the end of the book.

And I mean, I, I wrote to her this morning and she wrote to me.

I mean, we, we are, we have a, now a sibling relationship and it's, it's like a great gift of my life in my life.