Tuesday brought an icy drizzle that slicked the asphalt of the Saw Mill River Parkway as Ava drove her modest silver sedan north toward the Hudson Valley. It was her designated evening to visit her father at the St. Jude Rehabilitation Pavilion in Westchester. For an hour, she had driven in silence, watching the leafless winter trees blur past in gray silhouettes. But as she navigated the winding exit toward…
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