They Thought They Were Turning Me Into Someone Smaller and Easier to Rob – Instead They Walked, One by One, Into a Room a Fraud Attorney Had Spent Years Building Around Them
Nathan set out to make me dependent, and in doing so he forced me to build, in secret, the most independent structure of my life.
Charles set out to keep me ignorant, and in doing so he made me the most informed person in the entire scheme, because a woman who suspects she is being robbed learns her own finances down to the last decimal in a way a comfortable woman never does.
Eleanor set out to make me obedient, and taught me instead the precise value of my own refusal.
Every single thing they did to diminish me became, in the end, a tool I used to become larger.