The rain hit the blooming tulip petals and scratched the girl's cold face.
The girl died a few feet from the back door of her home, her mouth full of mud, her pants down to her feet, and covered in bruises. Her adoptive parents were accused of murder, but they strenuously claimed that they were innocent because they loved the girl...
My father, who is nearly eighty years old, is a criminal lawyer. In the final days of his long career, he was responsible for defending the defendant in this murder case. My father was running around for cases, and I drove him to and from him - but I didn't know that my father was approaching the end of his life...
Reader comments
It gave me a deep sense of the complexities of family and love. I especially like the father in the book. He is admirable at all costs for justice and truth. The girl in the story also made me feel very sad. I can understand the regret after wasting study. This book made me understand that we should cherish the present, study hard, and not let ourselves regret it.
It gave me a deep sense of the complexities of family and love. I especially like the father in the book. He is admirable at all costs for justice and truth. The girl in the story also made me feel very sad. I can understand the regret after wasting study. This book made me understand that we should cherish the present, study hard, and not let ourselves regret it.