“My crimes?

Sweetheart, a scar doesn’t make you intimidating.”

She was right about that, and it was almost the only true thing she said all night.

A scar does not make you intimidating.

I have never been intimidating because of my scar, and I have never wanted to be.

What makes a person dangerous is not the mark of the worst thing that happened to them but what they did in the moment it was happening — and what they became afterward.