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I told him he’d have to earn it.
The court agreed.
I finally understood that motherhood didn’t mean fixing things everyone else broke.
It meant protecting — even if the threat came from within your own home.
And when Lucas asked me weeks later, “Was she really a bad person?”
I said, “She made a very bad choice.”
Then he asked, “What about Dad?”
I paused.
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