Prompt: Miles' latest stepmother is met with yet another unseemly demise, and I find myself quite alone and rich and famous and the tree-murdering magnet. 
 Response: Well, I think it's a combination of things.  Your father's fame and his wealth and the fact that he owns this town.  He's constantly battle Nick Nolte for celebrity status in this very small town.  I think you also don't have friends, and so creating one is just an offshoot of the frayed mental status, if you will.
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