Fiona, I'm curious to know (I'd have to go back and re-read) what the timeline was between your father leaving and Jem cutting off contact. With the apparent levels of hatred your father and Jem both have/had for you, or maybe just women in general, is it possible that they were working together when Jem was committing his murder spree? And with Nick having such a profound, vile distaste for Jem, I wonder if your brother and dad were working together on some more dangerous that "just" misogynistic murder?

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