At 1:47 A.M., A Call From A Police Station Turned A Routine Arrest Into A Reckoning That Reached Boston

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“She won’t leave him, will she?”

The question carried the particular weight of a child’s disappointed realization about a parent’s limitations. I had heard similar things in my courtroom—children who understood more than the adults around them wanted to believe.

“I don’t know,” I answered honestly. “Your mother has been searching for stability continue reading …