Original Commentary

So, is the story entirely true? More or less. Dan isn't entirely sure about the high-level financial dealings (hooray for unreliable narrators - that saves me a whole lot of unnecessary research).

Why did Mr. and Mrs. Taylor get divorced? Kimberly mentioned her mother sleeping with the pool boy, a long while back. I see no reason why there couldn't've been multiple factors. They're both interestingly flawed people. Mind you, Kimberly also mentions that the divorce happened ten years ago. I may as well just admit it - I forgot about that, and all of my timelines say that it happened fifteen years ago. Isabel hates it when I change facts in strips that've been published in book form, though, so I'm not just going to go 'correct' it. But let's just say that Kimberly was rounding. Or remembering things wrong. - Terrence

Modern Commentary
I had remembered there being less time between Mr. Taylor building a new office tower and when he really went all in.

But it was thematically important that he overcome the first setbacks; it wasn't bad luck that did Mr. Taylor in. It was his own nature - Terrence