A Brief Word From Ken Dietz (Vera's Hateful Dad)
- Ken Dietz knows that things are hard for Vera, and that it wasn't easy to lose her mom at the age of twelve.
- But he knows what it is like to have mommy issues, too; when he went to his mother's funeral, he found out that she told everyone that she only had two sons—a.k.a. his two brothers.
- He says that finding that out was worse than her dying, even worse than his wife leaving him.
- Ken wants Vera to be the kind of adult who sees beyond herself and can take charge of her life.
- He thinks that his mom forcing him to take responsibility for his life (by kicking him out) was the best thing that ever happened to him, besides AA and Vera's birth.