I would pay it again a thousand times.

It is the best money I have ever spent.

I used to believe that exposing what my mother did was what broke our family.

I had been taught that, carefully, for thirty years — that the person who says the true thing out loud is the one who does the damage, that loyalty means keeping the box closed, that a family stays whole by staying quiet.

I believe the opposite now, completely.

A family is not broken when someone finally names the abuse.