Yzabel / July 9, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, I read 101 by Margaret Chatwin, and at some point in my review, mentioned that one person I would have wanted to read more about was Trigg’s father (mostly, why he was that way, or what he expected from his kids).

Guess what? Trigg himself decided to make a few things clearer, and invited himself over Margaret’ Chatwin’s blog page on Goodreads:

Yes, my adventure started long before that night in the living room when Ren sealed our fate by pulling the trigger. I actually think it started the day I was born, but who wants to be dragged that far back? Not me. Bad enough I had to live it once.

So – my dad. You probably figured we’d start with him, huh? Everything always starts with him. Not sure how that’s even possible, but it seems to be true.

His name is Kent Hale and I don’t know what he was like as a kid or teen. Never had one of those father/son get-to-know-you talks. You know the kind where, for a second, you can close your eyes and pretend your parent is really your friend? Where the two of you can find yourselves in each other? Where something they did as a kid is so similar to what you did just five minutes ago that you feel a connecting bond? Yeah – just never happened with him. When he wasn’t screaming, he was silent. That weird, vacant kind of silent. A stupor that, I’m sure was induced by the liquor.
His parents were no help in getting to know him. His dad died before my sixth birthday in some work related accident. Or so they say. Rumor has it the guy had an enemy on every corner.

Shocking how my dad turned out to be the stalwart individual that he is…

I’m not going to copy the whole story here, since it’s not mine. The rest of the post is available here.