“Unraveling Mysteries: How Subtraction Reveals More Than Just Numbers in Paula Burke’s Compelling Narrative”
The summer of 1974, when I was four, Dad shot an intruder breaking into our house at four in the morning. According to the ambered newspaper clipping I found in Dad’s papers, the intruder was a neighbor, a Vietnam veteran having a mental breakdown.
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Dad told the sheriff that he woke when he heard the intruder trying to break in at the den window and he grabbed his .357 Magnum revolver. The intruder had a hammer and a flashlight. Dad ordered the intruder to stop three times: once at one window; then at an adjacent window which the intruder broke with the hammer, unlatched, and crawled through; and a third time after the man was in the house. Typing this took longer than the real events.
