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Andrea nodded, eyes shiny but steady.
“My dad told me to keep them safe. He said if my mom ever complained, they’d show he was just giving me what I deserved.”
“But that’s not why I kept them,” she went on. “I kept them because of what he said with them.”
The judge looked at her.
“What did he say?”
“He said that every time I stayed longer at his house, I’d get something,” she answered. “Like, when I didn’t ask to go back to my mom’s, I got the tablet. When I didn’t text her that I wanted to come home, I got the shoes.”
Her voice trembled, but she kept going.
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