Three Days After Leaving a Military Hospital With Twins My Husband Served Me Divorce Papers and Claimed My House

was what you were handed.

Someday my sons will ask about their first winter.

I will not tell them their father was a monster, and I will not tell them their mother defeated him. Those are both stories, and neither one is useful.

I will tell them this. Character is what a person does when they believe nothing can stop them. And dignity is what a person continue reading …