To Charles Edward Leerhsen, my dad

One afternoon in July of 2005, Diane Kleinsteiber, a fifty-something pottery-store clerk from Watertown, Wisconsin, arrived without appointment at the Razor's Edge hair salon in Savage, Minnesota, and asked to see the proprietor, Jens Bohn.

Everyone in the barn knew what that meant, and we gasped, and when Bob tried to say thank you, he couldn't for a moment because he was crying.