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
Dr.
Patel answered without hesitation.
“You were threatened and injured.
We’re not going to place responsibility for another person’s violence onto you.”
I watched Clara’s face.
That sentence reached somewhere I could not.
She cried.
I cried too.