Anyway, the story is really about the two men, the boy-hood friends, one dead and one as good as dead. A youngwoman like Natasha has no need to drag their unfinished busi-ness behind her, burden herself with their defective karma. Ifshe has any sense she‘ll find herself another husband, someoneto give Todd‘s son a new name. People make too much of bloodcies anyway. But Natasha is probably one of those sticklers forhe truth, the way people are these days. Tell the child where he