It's easy, not to mention tempting, to blithely commit some serious errors in judgment when you're young. Most of them become distant memories as the years tick by. But every once in a while a youthful indiscretion is more like a ticking time bomb, counting down until it blows.
Catherine Smith has had her share of misfortune, but few of her travails have shaken her like the revelation she faces now. It's unsettled every part of...