Permission to Save Myself
And then she went home and she did nothing for fourteen months.
“I told myself I’d tried,” Hannah said. “That’s the sentence. I tried and she chose to go back. I said it to myself probably four hundred times, and I said it to my husband, and I said it to my mother, and every single time I said it, it worked.
It’s a very good sentence. It puts the whole thing on you.”
“You could have called the police.”
“I could have called the police.”
“You could have called my father.”