@gethin399: #part 3 # - My mother promised to watch my seven-year-old son. Instead, I found him locked outside her Philadelphia house in the rain while she hosted a charity gala for two hundred guests. I carried Peter into the ballroom of the Bellevue Hotel with his torn blue coat pressed against my chest. His red scarf was still around his neck—the one I had wrapped there before school. His pants were muddy, his lips pale, and he held a piece of stale bread in one fist. The orchestra stopped. Across the room, my mother, Vivian Whitaker, lowered her champagne glass beneath the chandeliers. At sixty-six, she looked immaculate in a gold gown and the diamond necklace that had belonged to her mother. "You promised you'd stay with him," I said. She glanced at the guests gathered for the Whitaker Foundation benefit. "Andrew, not now." "Look at him. He was locked outside an empty house in the rain." A man beside the donation table stopped smiling. My mother didn't move. That afternoon, an emergency board meeting

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