My Wife Was Seven Months Pregnant When She Stopped Leaving Bed—Then I Lifted the Blue Blanket and Realized My Mother Already Knew What Was Underneath
Clara’s contemporaneous messages mattered too.
She had sent Naomi one message several days before the serious attack:
Brenda keeps coming over when Marcus leaves. I hate being alone with her.
Naomi had replied:
Tell Marcus.
Clara wrote:
I don’t want another fight about his mom.
That message broke me.
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