Chapter 11 - MY DAUGHTER WAS BORN EARLYAt thirty-four weeks, I went into preterm labor.
Doctors could not say the pool caused it.
Stress may have contributed.
Maybe not.
We did not turn medical uncertainty into certainty for drama.
My daughter, Wren, arrived small.
Four pounds, eleven ounces.
She spent twelve days in neonatal care.
Dean came every day.
My mother came from Boston.
Parker was not there.
A temporary protective order kept him away from me.
Parentage and future contact with Wren would be handled separately through court.
That was difficult.
Parker was still her father.
Attempted violence against me mattered enormously to custody.
But I refused to speak as though I personally owned the final legal answer.
Courts.
Evaluators.
Safety plans.
Evidence.
May you like
Process.
Wren needed protection, not vengeance disguised as parenting.
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Chapter 12 - PARKER FINALLY ADMITTED THE PLANParker’s recorded proffer came months later.
Chapter 13 - THE COMPANY DID NOT BECOME MY REVENGEParker’s real-estate group eventually entered restructuring.
Chapter 14 - SABRINA’S LETTERSabrina’s first apology was worthless.
Chapter 15 - I WENT BACK TO THE POOLSix years later, Wren was six.
