Chapter 19 - whether our family could survive without asking the safest person to surrender first.

What I had was a husband who refused to confuse calm with surrender and a daughter whose safety gave me a reason to stop negotiating with obvious truth.
Sometimes that was enough to get through the next hour.
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We had one more fact than we had that morning, and somehow that made the night feel more dangerous.
THE CHRISTMAS DINNER THAT ENDED MY SISTER'S PLACE IN OUR FAMILY