My Brothers Could Have Destroyed His Family — Instead We Chose the Law
It was to make the final meaning of that room the opposite of what Preston had tried to make it mean.
He had used that space to say: this is what happens to women who do not know their place.
The center says, in the same room, with his own stolen money: no, this is what happens now — here is shelter, here is a lawyer, here is a counselor, here is a way out, here is someone who will come when you call.
Every woman who walks out of that center with her life back is a rebuttal, delivered in the exact room where the insult was spoken, to everything Preston believed.