Point and Shoot, Florida (YU)--Heap got a job as an information specialist with the Florida Department of Commerce, in Tallahassee.

Brenda put the boys in nursery school and went to work in the state archeology lab, analyzing bones. She was going to be a zooarcheologist.

Through a mix-up, Heap lost his job two weeks shy of completing his probationary period, filed a grievance, and was blacklisted, by the state.

Was blacklisted as a writer.

He also got a DWI and was evicted.

He had to take a Drunk Driver course and found out he was an alcoholic.

He quit drinking.

He got a job as an archeological field worker, out of town. At Andersonville Prison.

Back in the lab, he wrote an appendix to the site report comparing Civil War prisons, North and South.

After that, he got a job digging at the Old Capitol, renovating the building.

That is, demolishing two-thirds of it. The state called this historic preservation.

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. Demolition is preservation.

Then Brenda went into the field, to survey Big Cypress Swamp, backpack bone and shell samples out, to analyze later, back in the lab.

Heap's father had just died, and his mother offered to help him watch the boys in Delray Beach, while Brenda was in the field.

They went down there. In a $200 car with a blown main oil seal.

Heap had been sober a year.