Where The Melody Remembers Love
There was a victorious smile on her face, and she waved a yellowed diary at me.
"Guess what's written inside, Nora?" she asked.
She flipped the pages, rain drops splattering the yellowed pages.
"March 12, 2005. Day eighteen of being sold to a club by debt collectors. Today, a man named Mr. Hart paid my ransom. He said he wanted me to be his mistress… I'm grateful he saved me, but… I have a family. I have a wonderful husband and daughter. Turns out our family's debt was because of this man. He wanted to own me, and I was foolish enough to be grateful to him!" she read.