You told me that in front of my child.

And the only reason I have anything left to give anybody is that I did not listen to you.

“I’m not going to take the thing I saved by ignoring you and spend it proving you were right.”

She was quiet.

Then she said, “That’s very hard.”

And I said, “Yes. It is.”

I sent the two numbers.

She used one of them; I know because a legal aid attorney called my office eleven months later about a document, and there is apparently a claim, and I hope it works.