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“You really are naive. If I had not gone to bed with him that night, how could I have used the child to threaten him? I never considered that the child wasn’t his. If I had known, I would never have…”
She stopped and sighed.
“After he learned the truth, with the way he had become, neither I nor the child would have survived. I could not let my child go through what I went through.”
On the day Sophie was sentenced, heavy snow fell.
When the gavel struck, relief filled her face.
It seemed that this was the ending she had wanted.
I could not help but think that the world always seemed harder for women.
Without the system’s help, I might not have made it either.