Response to Taylor's "Aveux"

This story is about a man named Vince who seems to have gone down a path of depression and loneliness in the past few years. He seems to trust no one but his daughter and his dog. After tucking his daughter in one night, a woman by the name of Erica comes to see him. They talk but this talk quickly turns into an argument. She runs into her room, shouting a suicide threat, something that she apparently does a lot. She eventually breaks down and the two have sex. Later on, she leaves with something of his but Vince thinks nothing of it, thinking she’d only taken her clothes. At church the next day, Vince goes outside and is arrested later on due to Erica’s suicide as she had stolen his gun the night before. Two years of trials finally show that he is found not guilty, and he struggles to put his life back together by writing a book about his struggles. His daughter loses respect for him and in an attempt to regain this he moves them to Paris.
    I liked how the daughter continued to be an important thing in Vince’s life. No matter what really happened to him, his love for his daughter never faltered. That and how the French phrase that the daughter learned continued to come back into play and acted as the daughter’s anchor. I really liked the line Vince shouts out about life being like a Nicholas Sparks novel.
    At times, I felt as though the protagonist was a bit over dramatic. I also would have liked to see more of the conflict between him and his daughter at the end along with more about his attempts to mend their relationship since she played a major role in his life.