"Bob was a crisp, button-down Christian. He knew a lot about the bible and carried it to church with him every week. He was the kind of guy who could teach adult Sunday school. He had a good reputation as an eye doctor and was a pretty upstanding citizen. Then the meltdown. He had an affair with a young woman at work. He divorced his wife, Rita, who taught at the local Christian high school. She was diagnosed with cancer not too long after that, which made Bob an even greater pariah." "When fisherman are out for shark they do what they call "chum" - they throw bloody stuff overboard that attracts the sharks and drives them into a frenzy. Bob was a kind of Christian chum for a while. We were the sharks. What he did and how he did it pulled out all the self-righteousness in our little community. We fed on Bob for a while until we finally lost interest. Bob disappeared and when he resurfaced years later he was completely different." Red Like Blood: Conf...