I told them to brush their teeth and then come down. I was going to break the news to Mika.I sat across from Mika and took a big gulp of my Bloody Mar...y. “There’s no way to delicately put this, Mika, but Dan has had a major heart attack and died.”Mika stared at me for some long minutes, and finally said, “I love Dan more than should be allowed by law. I would do anything for him and constantly did. I thought that we were smoothing things out after some very bitter talking while he was first. In fact it often had more downs than ups, but for better or for worse Mario Gallagher and I chose to be married in the Edwardsville courthouse in Madison County IL. On July 26th, we said our ‘I do’s’ but no one asked about love or anything of the like. He married me because he wanted his freedom, and me? Perhaps it was an act of defiance that went bad. I wanted to prove that I was an adult and in the act itself, I proved to be more childish than I was years earlier. We lived with my parents,. The sounds of life filled the building and it was strange to open the refrigerator and find it full.They ate at the kitchen island with a stack of Aston Martin promotional materials and a prospective build sheet piled to one side. He was not the owner of a new car. Janie had kept her game going at the dealership until the salesman started talking numbers. Scott was no stranger to impulse buys, but at three hundred thousand dollars - he needed to sleep on it. Janie had quickly let him off the. It had to be me.So I found myself following Mom through the house until we reached the parlor. The room she never wanted anyone to enter. The carpet was soft, the lighting dim. I almost didn't see Mom standing by the window looking out at the lawn. She twitched when I put my hand on her shoulder."Oh, Peter," she said, turning to me with a smile. "I didn't hear you. You gave me quite a fright." No, Mom, not Peter," I said. Peter was my Dad's name. "It's me. Mark. Your son." Mark?" she said,.