Goldie Bloom
To help her childhood sweetheart, David Middleton, take my place studying abroad, my wife, Sharon Griffin, destroys my records and deliberately fills in false information, ensuring that I'm permanently denied a visa.
She even severely injured my hands before sending me to the Behavioral Reform Center.
My mother-in-law, Paula Brown, who has always treated me with affection, takes Sharon's side.
"Kyle is so ungrateful. We gave him everything, and he still wanted to get a PhD abroad to find his biological parents. Who's going to take care of me if he's gone?"
Sharon snorts. "He's just vain. When he found out I'd turned down Westbridge's offer of admission, he gave me the silent treatment and threatened to divorce me. If I let him go abroad, he'd think he could do whatever he wanted.
"As my husband, he has everything he could ever need, yet he still wants to take David's opportunities away from him. Maybe the Behavioral Reform Center can teach him to appreciate what he has."
A semester later, Sharon goes to the airport to pick up David, who's returning from his studies abroad.
For the first time in a long while, she asks her assistant, Adam Norris, "It's been so long. Has Kyle learned his lesson? Tell him he can come home for the winter break."
She doesn't know that I've already died on the very first day she sent me to that reform center.