My name is Liam. I'm 29 years old and I am a patrol officer with the Crestwood Police Department, which means I spend 8 to 12 hours a day enforcing the law for complete strangers and apparently zero hours enforcing it for my own family. At least that was the arrangement until 6 months ago when my brother took my car without asking and drove it into a concrete median at 47 mph.
His third accident this year. His third. When my father found out, he looked me square in the eye and said, "Forgive him.
It's just metal. " I nodded. I said, "Okay.