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“Had he left these diaries somewhere she was bound to find them? In the back pages of each book, under the headline “cash accounts,” were lists of women, delineated by month, that Bobby had been with. He ranked them from one to ten, as if he were a teenager.”
― Maureen Callahan

“Bobby said the ugliest things to her — that she’d be “better off dead” and that things would be “so much easier” if she committed suicide.”
― Maureen Callahan

“She probably lived for at least an hour after the crash, and if Ted had gotten help, Mary Jo could have been saved.”
― Maureen Callahan

“Mary Jo’s parents were told no details by Ted. Not that he had been drinking, or had an expired license. They didn’t know he had emerged from the water and walked a mile past several houses, a fire station and pay phones and never once tried to find help.”
― Maureen Callahan