[theDentist]

along with forming a relationship with a man her stepfather had banned her from seeing three days after his death,

I think the author meant that 3 days after Daddy-dearest died, she started the relationship that her father had previously banned.

[WayneS]

Well then he should have WRITTEN what he meant!

Actually, I know what he meant - I was making a sarcastic point.

I’m a bit of a stickler for proper sentence structure, especially as reagrds “professional” writers, like newspaper reporters. It’s a character flaw I have been unable to banish from my psyche.

;^)