The Children Shall Be Blameless

Some men seem to have all the luck. Others dream of only finding a little.
Richard Smiths world was the orphanage. It was the only one he knew. All of
the other worlds for children, of mothers and fathers and a place called home, he
learned from the tears of those who had lost theirs only to wind up in his. From
the way they grieved, he knew it must have been something pretty great. Once he
had two sisters, they said. One had died and the other went to a place called Iowa
with an uncle. He was left behind. He grew up to put most of it behind him and
in his search for a family of his own, thought that he had. But an electrical shock
opened some door to his early childhood he couldnt seem to get closed again. Each
discovery posed more questions until finally there was only one other person he
needed to see. It would be a three-day road trip, or so he thought