At my divorce hearing, my seven-year-old daughter walked into the Georgia courtroom, asked the judge if she could show him something I didn’t know about, and reached for the cracked tablet she’d been hiding under her pillow for months

They pulled apart and smiled at each other, the shadows of their old life finally beginning to fade.

They didn’t have a mansion anymore. They didn’t have a big bank account. But they had freedom, they had peace, and they had each other.

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