CNU-At my mother’s Sunday dinner, my sister offered to take my five-year-old daugh…

people expected me to feel victorious.

I didn’t.

Victory sounds loud. What I felt was quieter. More like a door finally closing in another room.

Taryn was in prison. My mother was in prison. Laya was safe from them by court order. Madison was living with Noah and starting therapy. The criminal cases were over.

But my daughter still woke up crying.

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