Vanishing Point

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Melissa Meith, my expert on legal matters-and mothers!

Bette Lamb, extraordinary nurse, artist, and writer.

And, as always, Bill Pronzini: Dammit, why are you always right?

VANISHING POINT

1. a point of disappearance, cessation, or extinction

2. (in the study of perspective in art) that point toward which receding parallel lines appear to converge

– Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition