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
She will die in prison
for Clara to be safe.
We needed enforceable distance.
Accountability.
A plan for eventual release.
The possibility that someday Brenda would live outside prison did not invalidate what happened.
Punishment has legal limits.
Personal boundaries can remain.