Priscilla — who had never known anything, because business was men’s work — surrendered her Oregon condo to satisfy her share of the restitution.

And I reclaimed full control of my grandmother’s estate, every property, every account, the whole of what Amalia had built to keep me free.

I used part of the recovered money to start a foundation, small at first, that provides legal and financial help to mothers trying to escape domestic and financial abuse — women who have been made to feel, as I was made to feel, that their worth was a thing another person got to measure.

Because that, in the end, was the real theft.