Misplaced Priorities

ARTHUR VANCE

He had barely stepped through his front door after work before deciding to ring his daughter, Cora. It wasn’t that he refused to help her out, or that he lacked the love a father owed his child; in his view, Cora was simply being impossible. She had always been overly sensitive, an empath ruled entirely by emotion ever since she was a little girl.

Back at age eight, she had sobbed f