"I did hear about that," he said. April's mother and Robert got on like a house fire. There were initial sparks, it got really hot, but then everything they owned and cared was quickly destroyed. When she got heavily into drugs and the girls were taken away, there wasn't much reason for him to stay around after that. Not that he was ever around much in the first place.

"Not until it was too late to see her, although I doubt she would have wanted to see me. I don't think your sister knows but then again, she was too young to remember her."