When Heather told me MY family was dead, and bid me to sign a document where I could not write about HER family, a scene from the movie Excalibur came to mind, where Parsifal is hanging in a tree along with other knights who went in search of the Holy Grail. Betrayals do not get any darker than this, but

“It is always darkest before the dawn.”

The second time I went to see my daughter in Sonoma I told Patrice and Heather my biography is not just about Christine. Indeed, she is a sideshow to a greater story

“A Grail story.”

The look on Patrice’s face, was priceless. She was in shock. The look she gave Heather told her to prepare the lifeboat;

“We’re bailing!”

After I left for home, Heather hears the verdict from the Flower Maidens, even the virdict from ‘Hell’s Rose’.

“Your father’s insane! We have…