Jed

A taste for the finest in material things produced a delicate wife, two children and a more than adequate job. However, his craze for success consumed his focus and overpowered his value system. JED played poker and won a national championship. His fame spread. He also won a trucking company in a challenge match game with a fool. The win allowed him to move from being a small executive fish in a big pond to being the big top fish in a small pond and he loved it. Failure with his family life further twisted his values. He took his wifes sister as a mistress and they produced a male child that remained a phantom until his death. JED fought his demons while dancing between card games and union contracts. Eventually, the grim reaper cornered him in his penthouse hotel room, paralyzed and dying. A witness who knew him as a kind, generous, and thoughtful man described him at the funeral as a marvel of a man. Nevertheless, most doubted the description wondering, Was he good or bad or both?