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Victoria was as loving and kind as she was hardworking and tough. All the men in our family—my father and I, my son Johnny and my brothers, Don and Anthony—owe whatever determination and work ethic we have to the phenomenal example provided by these two dynamic women. This book also is a tribute to the rest of the wonderful women in my life: my always encouraging, affectionate and heaven-sent mother, Noreen Patricia Leahy; my beautiful, sweet-spirited and supportive wife and life partner, Elizabeth; my saintly and silly sister Kathleen; my precious and adorable daughters, Kathleen and Mary; and my father's devoted wife, Marta.

I thought. “Your wife is laid up with stitches in a hospital bed after just giving birth to your baby girl and you're making her worry about money. ” She was right. At least I hoped she was. But I couldn't help from thinking it was all on me. Whenever I heard sayings like “let go and let God,” it sounded way too convenient. That always seemed like some sort of an excuse for not busting my hump to look for the next case. Elizabeth could tell by my blank stare that I was still worried. “We've always been fine, haven't we?

Your winning other murder cases and knowing how to handle this kind of case is good, of course, but it's actually more important to us that you be a man of faith like my son. ” he persisted. There it was, the subject I preferred to avoid. These people wanted a Christian lawyer above all and here I was, selling my secular wares. “God's going to zap me, I just know it,” I said to myself. “Yes, of course,” I lied; knowing that phoning in my faith from a pew on Sundays wasn't going to cut it with these people.

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