A Judge Sat at the Defense Table in Her Own Courtroom as Her Parents Tried to Sue Her

taken more courage than anything she had witnessed in that family in eighty years. Her husband, God rest him, had always said I was the tough one, not because I fought but because I knew when to.

She was sorry she hadn’t spoken sooner. That was on her.

I read it three times. The third time my eyes would not stay dry.

She had known, and stayed quiet to continue reading …