“You are a heartless monster, Hannah,” he spat at me, through the glass.

And I stepped back from the locked door.

“No, Dad,” I said, quietly.

“I am not a monster.

I am just a mother who has nothing left to lose.

You took everything from me that you could — you weren’t even there when the rest was taken.

And a woman with nothing left to lose is the one person in the world you cannot threaten.

Remember that.