I didn’t keep the note because it was clever or poetic or the kind of thing you frame for Instagram. I kept it because it saved my life.
It lives now in a small wooden box on my dresser, tucked between a postcard from Yellowstone we bought on a road trip three summers ago and a blue ribbon from Sarah’s eighth-grade science fair. Five words, slanted and urgent, written in the hurried handwriting of a fourteen-year-old who understood that seconds mattered: Pretend to be sick and leave.
If I’m being completely honest, I almost didn’t listen. The rational part of my brain—the part that had been trained for forty-two years to be polite, to not make scenes, to trust the people who claimed to love me—wanted to dismiss it as teenage drama. But something in Sarah’s eyes when she slid that note across the kitchen counter stopped me cold. Her hands were trembling, but her gaze was steady as steel. This wasn’t a prank or an overreaction. This was survival.
My name is Helen Cartwright, and this is the story of how my daughter saw what I couldn’t, how she saved us both, and how we rebuilt our lives from the ashes of a nightmare that was supposed to be a fresh start.
It was a Saturday like any other on the outskirts of Chicago—the kind of mild spring morning with a light wind that lifts porch flags and carries the smell of fresh coffee through houses that have been scrubbed within an inch of their lives. The dining room table was set the way magazines set tables, the kind of presentation that takes an hour to achieve and is meant to look effortless: white ironstone plates, linen napkins folded into complicated shapes, three vases of grocery-store tulips arranged to look more expensive than they were.
Richard—my husband of two years, my second chance at what I’d desperately hoped would be a stable, solid middle age—had invited his business partners for brunch to discuss “expansion opportunities.” He wore cufflinks and that particular smile you could bounce a quarter off, the one that had charmed me during our whirlwind courtship and made me believe that maybe, finally, I’d found someone who wanted to build something real.
I wore the dress Sarah once said made me look like I ran a bookshop that smelled like vanilla and old paper—a compliment that meant more to me than any elaborate flattery. It should have been an ordinary good day, the kind where you feel proud of your home and your life and the person you’ve become.
But Sarah, fourteen and usually quiet as snowfall, slid that note across the kitchen counter like someone defusing a bomb, and everything I thought I knew shattered in an instant.
I followed her to her bedroom, my heart already racing though I didn’t yet understand why. She closed the door behind us with a care that felt rehearsed, then pulled a small notebook from under her mattress—the kind with graph paper and color-coded tabs that made me realize my daughter had been conducting an investigation I knew nothing about.
“Mom, listen carefully,” she said, her voice low and urgent. “Richard is going to poison you today. During brunch. I found his plan.”
The words didn’t compute at first. They felt like lines from a true-crime podcast, not sentences that could apply to my actual life. “Sarah, that’s—that’s insane. Richard wouldn’t—”
“He’s going to do it with the tea,” she interrupted, opening the notebook to a page covered in her neat handwriting. “You always drink tea when we host because it looks polite and photographs well. He’s been watching your patterns for months. He wrote it all down.”
She showed me photocopies of pages she’d taken from a small leather journal Richard kept in his desk—a journal I’d never known existed. The handwriting was unmistakably his, the same distinctive scrawl he used for grocery lists and birthday cards. But these pages contained something far darker: a timeline, meticulously planned, with my death as the inevitable conclusion.
10:30 – Guests arrive 11:00 – Serve appetizers 11:45 – Bring out tea service. H always accepts Earl Grey. 12:05 – Effects should begin. Mild at first—dizziness, confusion. 12:20 – More pronounced symptoms. Difficulty breathing. 12:30 – Call ambulance. Express concern. 12:45 – Too late.
My hands shook as I read the words over and over, trying to make them mean something else, anything else. “This can’t be real. Why would he—”
“The insurance policy,” Sarah said quietly, flipping to another tab in her notebook. “I found the papers in his filing cabinet last week when I was looking for my birth certificate. He took out a two-million-dollar life insurance policy on you six months ago. You’re worth more dead than alive to him.”
A knock on the door made us both jump. Richard’s voice came through, smooth and concerned: “Everything okay in there? Helen, the Andersons just texted—they’re running ten minutes early.”
I looked at my daughter, at this child I’d raised to be kind and trusting, who was now showing me evidence that my husband wanted me dead. Every instinct screamed that this couldn’t be happening, that there had to be some rational explanation. But Sarah’s eyes held mine with an intensity that made me understand: I could either believe her or die.
“I have a migraine,” I called out, my voice surprisingly steady. “Sarah’s helping me find my medication. We’ll be right down.”
“Poor thing,” Richard said through the door, and I could hear the manufactured sympathy in his voice that I’d somehow never noticed before. “I’ll make you some of that special tea that always helps. Just come down when you can.”
The special tea. My blood ran cold.
“We’re leaving,” I whispered to Sarah. “Right now.”
“He’ll try to stop us if we go out the front,” she said, already thinking three steps ahead. “We take the car and go. Tell him the migraine is too bad and you need to go to urgent care. I’ll come with you to help.”
We moved through the house like burglars stealing our own lives. I grabbed my purse, Sarah grabbed her backpack—which I later learned she’d already packed with copies of all the evidence she’d gathered—and we headed for the garage. Richard intercepted us in the hallway, his hand finding my elbow with what would have looked like gentle concern to anyone watching.
“Helen, you look pale. Let me help you lie down. The guests can wait.”
“I need my prescription,” I said, pulling away from him with more force than I’d ever used before. “The one at the pharmacy. Sarah’s going to drive me.”
Something flickered behind his eyes—calculation, maybe, or frustration that his timeline was being disrupted. But he smiled and stepped aside. “Of course. But hurry back. I’d hate for you to miss the whole thing.”
I’d hate for you to miss the whole thing. Later, those words would replay in my mind like a horror movie tagline. He’d meant my own death. He wanted me there to watch it happen, to experience the confusion and terror as my body failed, to know in those final moments that I’d been betrayed by the person who’d promised to love me.
We got in the car and I started driving with no clear destination, just an overwhelming need to put distance between us and that house. Sarah’s hands were still shaking, and I realized mine were too. We made it about ten blocks before I had to pull over behind a hardware store, where a delivery truck was idling and a small American flag snapped in the breeze on a short pole outside the building’s entrance.
“Tell me everything,” I said, turning off the engine.
And she did.
Sarah had started noticing things about six weeks earlier—small inconsistencies that individually meant nothing but together formed a disturbing pattern. Richard taking phone calls in the garage with the door closed. Documents hidden in his desk that he’d never mentioned. The way he’d suddenly become interested in my daily routine, asking detailed questions about what I ate and when, whether I took vitamins, if I ever felt dizzy or confused.
“I thought maybe he was having an affair at first,” Sarah admitted. “That would have been bad enough. But then I found the notebook.”
She’d been looking for stamps in his desk and discovered the leather journal tucked in the back of a drawer. What she read there had terrified her enough to start her own investigation. She’d photographed pages with her phone. She’d tracked his movements. She’d found receipts for purchases that made no sense—including one from a specialty chemical supplier for a compound she’d researched online and learned could cause cardiac arrest in small doses.
The most damning evidence was a series of calls to a number saved in his phone as “Santos.” Sarah had called it from a burner phone she’d bought with her babysitting money and reached a man who answered with “What do you need?” in a way that suggested he wasn’t selling anything legal.
“I almost told you so many times,” Sarah said, tears finally streaming down her face. “But I was afraid you wouldn’t believe me. I was afraid he’d convince you I was just a jealous kid who didn’t want you to be happy. So I kept gathering evidence until I had enough that you’d have to listen.”
I pulled her into my arms and let her cry, this extraordinary child who’d been living with the knowledge that her mother was in danger and had been brave enough to do something about it. “You saved my life,” I whispered. “You saved us both.”
We sat in that parking lot for twenty minutes while I called the only person I could think of who would know exactly what to do: Francesca Navaro, a friend from college who’d turned late nights reading case law into a career as one of Chicago’s most respected criminal defense attorneys.
She answered on the second ring. “Helen? What’s wrong?”
I tried to explain, but the words came out jumbled and panicked. Francesca cut through the chaos with three clear directives: “Don’t go home. Don’t talk to the police without me present. Send me every piece of evidence Sarah has. I’m leaving my office now and I’ll meet you at the coffee shop near Crest View Mall in thirty minutes.”
My phone started buzzing before we even started driving—texts from Richard, each one a carefully constructed tile in a narrative he was building: Where are you? The Andersons are asking about you. Helen, you’re scaring me. Please come home or tell me which urgent care you’re at. I love you and I’m worried.
By the time we reached the mall, he’d sent fifteen messages. The last one made my stomach turn: I’ve called the police to do a wellness check. I’m worried you’re not thinking clearly. Please don’t do anything rash. The medication you take for anxiety can cause confusion—everyone here knows that. Come home and we’ll figure this out together.
He was already building his defense, painting me as unstable, someone whose accusations couldn’t be trusted. It was brilliant and terrifying in equal measure.
Francesca arrived wearing a navy suit and carrying a leather briefcase that meant business. She looked exactly like what she was—someone who’d spent twenty years learning how to dismantle lies and build cases from threads of truth. We sat in the back corner of the coffee shop, and I watched her face remain completely neutral as Sarah walked her through everything: the notebook, the insurance policy, the phone calls, the chemical receipts.
“This is enough,” Francesca said finally, closing Sarah’s notebook with careful precision. “This is more than enough. But we need to move fast because Richard’s going to try to control the narrative, and he’s already started.”
She pulled out her phone and made a call to someone she referred to only as “Lieutenant Morrison.” Within fifteen minutes, two police officers arrived at the coffee shop—a woman in her forties with kind eyes and a younger man who kept his hand near his radio like he was expecting trouble.
They listened to our story with professional skepticism that gradually shifted to serious concern as Sarah showed them her evidence. The photos of Richard’s journal. The insurance documents. The receipts. The burner phone with the call log showing multiple contacts with “Santos.”
“We’d like you to come to the precinct to make a formal statement,” the female officer said. “And we’ll need to collect this evidence properly. But I want you to know—you did the right thing by leaving when you did.”
Richard showed up at the police station forty-five minutes after we did, and watching him work was like seeing a master class in manipulation. He expressed concern for my mental health, suggested that my anxiety medication might be causing paranoid delusions, and even managed to produce tears when he talked about how much he loved me and how scared he was that I was “having some kind of episode.”
He was good. He was very, very good. If we hadn’t had Sarah’s evidence, if we hadn’t had Francesca cutting through his performance with pointed legal questions, it might have worked.
But then the police executed a search warrant on our house. In Richard’s desk, they found the journal Sarah had photographed—he hadn’t thought to hide it because he’d never imagined a fourteen-year-old would be investigating him. In the kitchen, they found the “special tea” he’d been planning to serve me, and field testing showed it contained a substance that absolutely did not belong in any beverage meant for human consumption.
The moment Richard realized the evidence was real and documented and legally obtained, something in his face changed. The mask of the concerned husband slipped, and what I saw underneath made my blood run cold—not rage or panic, but cold calculation. He was already thinking about his defense, already planning his next move.
He lunged at me then, right there in the police station, his hands reaching for my throat before two officers tackled him to the ground. “You stupid bitch,” he snarled as they cuffed him. “You were supposed to drink the tea. You were supposed to make this easy.”
That was the moment I knew with absolute certainty: my daughter had saved my life. Another hour, maybe two, and I would have been dead on my dining room floor while Richard called 911 and performed grief for the paramedics.
The charges came fast: attempted murder, fraud, conspiracy. The district attorney—a sharp woman named Patricia Chen who had a reputation for being relentless—added more counts as the investigation expanded. It turned out Richard had done this before. Not exactly this, but close enough that patterns emerged once people started looking.
His first wife had died three years earlier of what was ruled a heart attack. She’d been thirty-eight years old with no history of cardiac problems, but the death had been investigated just enough to clear Richard of obvious wrongdoing. Now, with our case as a blueprint, investigators exhumed her body and found traces of the same compound Richard had planned to use on me.
Her family had suspected something was wrong all along but had been dismissed as grief-stricken relatives looking for someone to blame. Now they had answers, and those answers came with a devastating weight: their daughter, their sister, their mother had been murdered, and the justice system had failed her the first time around.
The trial lasted three weeks and felt like living inside a nightmare where every day brought fresh horror. I sat in that courtroom and listened to forensic toxicologists explain exactly how Richard had planned to kill me—the dosage, the timeline, the way my symptoms would have mimicked a heart attack or stroke. I heard the insurance investigator detail how Richard had been on the verge of bankruptcy, how he’d seen my life insurance policy as the solution to all his financial problems.
And I watched Sarah testify with a composure that broke my heart and made me proud in equal measure. She answered the prosecutor’s questions clearly and precisely, walking the jury through her investigation with the kind of detail that made even the defense attorney pause. When Richard’s lawyer tried to suggest she’d been influenced by my supposed mental instability, she looked him dead in the eye and said, “I didn’t need my mother to tell me what attempted murder looks like. I read my stepfather’s own words. He wrote down his plan to kill her. There’s nothing unstable about believing someone when they tell you—in writing—that they want to commit murder.”
The jury deliberated for six hours. When they came back with a guilty verdict on all counts, I felt something release in my chest that I hadn’t realized I’d been holding since the day Sarah handed me that note. Richard was sentenced to thirty years for my attempted murder and another fifteen for his first wife’s death. He’ll be seventy-three years old if he ever gets out.
But the end of the trial wasn’t the end of our story—it was barely the beginning.
We sold the house immediately. I couldn’t spend another night in a place where someone had planned my death with the same casual attention most people give to planning a vacation. Every room felt contaminated, every corner held memories that had been revealed as lies. The dining room where we’d hosted dinners. The bedroom where I’d slept beside someone who was counting down the days until he could cash in on my death. The kitchen where poisoned tea had been waiting.
We moved into a third-floor apartment on a quiet street with a courtyard where kids played and neighbors actually knew each other’s names. The first night, we ate pizza on the floor off paper plates and passed sparkling water back and forth like it was champagne, celebrating the simple miracle of being alive and safe and together.
Sarah started high school that fall looking like someone who’d walked through fire and come out forged into something stronger. She joined the debate team and a robotics club, made friends who knew her story but treated her like a person rather than a survivor. She planted an herb garden on our small balcony and taught herself to make lemon pasta on Tuesdays because routine and normalcy felt like luxuries we’d earned.
I kept my job at the community college, teaching English composition to students who were mostly just trying to get through their general education requirements. I loved the ordinary rhythm of it—grading papers, holding office hours, watching students have small breakthroughs about thesis statements and topic sentences. After everything we’d been through, ordinary felt like the greatest gift in the world.
Therapy helped us both process what we’d survived. Dr. Michelle Reeves specialized in trauma, and she taught us that healing isn’t linear, that there would be good days and hard days, and that both were normal. She helped Sarah work through the guilt of not telling me sooner, helped me work through the guilt of not seeing the danger myself. She taught us that survival isn’t something you achieve once—it’s something you practice every day.
We established new rituals to replace the ones that had been poisoned by Richard’s plans. Saturday mornings, we’d walk to the farmers market and buy vegetables from people who knew their names and stories. We’d stop at the flower stand and buy whatever was in season—tulips in spring, sunflowers in summer, chrysanthemums in fall. We’d go to the coffee shop where a barista named Marcus always remembered that I took oat milk and Sarah liked her hot chocolate with extra whipped cream.
On the one-year anniversary of the day Sarah handed me that note, Francesca came over for dinner. We set the table with care—white plates, fresh flowers, cloth napkins—reclaiming the ritual of hospitality from Richard’s attempt to weaponize it. Francesca brought wine and stories from her latest case, and we toasted to survival, to justice, to fourteen-year-olds who trust their instincts and mothers who listen.
“You know what the best part of that whole case was?” Francesca said, refilling our glasses. “Watching that jury’s faces when they saw Sarah’s notebook. That kid had better documentation than most police investigations. She’d have made one hell of a lawyer.”
Sarah smiled into her lemonade. “I’m thinking forensic pathology, actually. Or maybe criminal psychology. Something where I can help catch people like Richard before they hurt someone.”
And that was when I knew we were going to be okay. Not just survive, but actually build something good from the wreckage. Sarah wasn’t going to let what happened to us turn her bitter or fearful—she was going to use it as fuel to help others.
The restitution from Richard’s seized assets provided a financial cushion I’d never expected. Francesca helped us set up a scholarship fund in the name of Richard’s first wife—the woman whose death had gone unquestioned for too long. Every year, we’d award money to students pursuing careers in criminal justice, forensic science, or advocacy work. The first recipient wrote us a letter that made both Sarah and me cry: “Because of this scholarship, I don’t have to choose between buying textbooks and paying rent. You’ve given me the gift of being able to focus on my education without the constant weight of financial stress. I promise to use my degree to help people the way you’ve helped me.”
Two years after the trial, Sarah left for college with a full scholarship and plans to study forensic psychology. I helped her pack boxes labeled “Books” and “Clothes” and “Random but Essential,” and on move-in day we hauled everything up three flights of stairs to a dorm room she’d share with a girl from Montana who played violin and made elaborate spreadsheets for fun.
Before I left, I slipped a note into Sarah’s top drawer, folded in half so she’d find it later: “I trust you. You saved us. Call me for everything, including nothing. Love, Mom.”
She called me that night, voice thick with emotion. “I found your note.”
“Good. And I meant every word.”
“I know. I love you, Mom.”
“I love you too, kiddo. More than you’ll ever know.”
The apartment felt too quiet after Sarah left, but it was a peaceful quiet rather than an ominous one. I filled the space with new routines: morning walks by the lake, Sunday dinners with neighbors, a book club that met monthly and took their literary analysis very seriously. I learned to be alone without being lonely, to find comfort in my own company.
And then, unexpectedly, I met Daniel.
He was standing in line at the farmers market, waiting patiently while the elderly farmer weighed peaches with meticulous care. Most people would have been checking their phones or sighing with impatience, but Daniel just stood there with a slight smile, completely present in the moment.
We started talking about nothing—the weather, the quality of the produce, whether the stone fruit was worth the price—and somehow that nothing turned into coffee, which turned into a walk by the lake, which turned into dinner at a quiet restaurant where the waitress knew everyone’s name.
Daniel was different from anyone I’d dated before. He listened more than he talked. He asked about Sarah first, always. When I told him my story—not immediately, but eventually—he didn’t try to fix it or minimize it or tell me I was brave. He just said, “I’m glad you’re here. I’m glad Sarah trusted you enough to tell you. And I’m glad you listened.”
We took it slow in a way that would have bored anyone looking for drama but delighted my therapist. Walks by the lake. Dinner at his place where he made pasta from scratch. Coffee on Sunday mornings where we’d sit in comfortable silence reading different sections of the newspaper. He met Sarah during winter break, and I watched them talk about her classes and his work as a civil engineer, and I saw Sarah’s shoulders relax in a way that told me she approved.
On the second anniversary of the verdict, Daniel asked if I wanted to go look at the holiday lights on Maple Street, where the neighbors competed to create the most elaborate displays. We walked past houses draped in thousands of LED lights, inflatable snowmen, and projection systems that turned entire facades into animated winter scenes.
He stopped under a tree that still held one stubborn leaf, as if it hadn’t gotten the memo about winter. He didn’t kneel—Daniel wasn’t the theatrical type. He just took my hand and said, “I want to be where you and Sarah are, in whatever way works for you. No pressure, no timeline, just—I want to be part of this life you’ve built.”
I said yes because the relief in my chest felt like coming home.
We were married in May at the park district pavilion—nothing fancy, just folding chairs and sheet cake and the people who mattered most. Sarah stood beside me as we said our vows, and Francesca officiated because of course she did. Daniel’s children—two adults in their thirties who carried their father’s kindness like a family heirloom—welcomed us with such genuine warmth that I cried through half the ceremony.
The life we built together was intentionally ordinary. We didn’t need grand gestures or dramatic declarations. We needed stability, routine, the reliable rhythm of breakfast together and walks in the evening and movie nights where we’d argue good-naturedly about what to watch.
We kept the scholarship fund going, expanding it every year. We attended the award ceremonies and met the students whose educations we were helping to fund. They studied criminal justice and social work, forensic science and advocacy law—careers built around helping people and seeking justice. One young woman told us she’d been inspired by our story to become a victims’ advocate. “You turned something terrible into something good,” she said. “You showed me that’s possible.”
Sarah graduated with honors and was accepted into a prestigious forensic psychology graduate program. She called us from campus, voice shaking with excitement. “Mom, they want me. They actually want me.”
“Of course they do,” I said, crying happy tears in the middle of the grocery store where I’d answered the phone. “You’re extraordinary.”
“I learned from the best,” she said softly.
Life continued its steady forward march. Daniel and I settled into our routines—Saturday farmers markets, Sunday dinners with extended family, the comfortable domesticity of shared grocery lists and inside jokes. We traveled a little, mostly road trips through small towns with good diners and interesting histories. We volunteered at the library literacy program and the community garden. We lived the kind of life that doesn’t make for dramatic stories but makes for happiness.
Sometimes I still think about that morning—the note sliding across the counter, the decision to believe my daughter instead of my husband, the narrow margin between life and death. I keep the note in its wooden box on my dresser, and occasionally I’ll take it out and look at those five hurried words: Pretend to be sick and leave.
They’re just words on paper, blue ink on white, the handwriting of a frightened teenager. But they represent something much larger—the moment my daughter chose to act despite her fear, the moment I chose to listen despite my doubt, the moment we both chose survival over politeness.
If someone had told me five years ago that I’d survive a murder plot and come out the other side stronger, I wouldn’t have believed them. But here I am, alive and safe and surrounded by people I love and trust. I have a husband who treats me with genuine kindness. I have a daughter who’s going to change the world. I have friends who show up when it matters. I have work that feels meaningful and days that feel full.
The trauma didn’t disappear. Some nights I still wake up with my heart racing, convinced I hear footsteps in the hallway. Some days I catch myself checking the locks twice, three times, just to be sure. Anniversaries are hard—the day I married Richard, the day Sarah found his journal, the day we fled the house. But Dr. Reeves taught me that healing isn’t about erasing the past. It’s about learning to carry it without letting it carry you.
Every year on the anniversary of that Saturday morning, Sarah and I have a private tradition. We go to the diner with the good pie and split a slice of cherry and a slice of apple. We don’t talk about Richard or the trial or the fear. We talk about everything else—her research, my students, Daniel’s latest project, the neighbor’s new puppy, what we’re reading, where we want to travel next.
And then, before we leave, we look at each other across the table and say the same thing: “We’re still here.”
It’s a simple statement, almost banal in its ordinariness. But it carries the weight of everything we survived, everything we chose, everything we built. We’re still here. We made it through. We didn’t just survive—we created lives worth living.
The story could end there, with that affirmation in a diner booth over pie and coffee. But life doesn’t end with neat summations. It keeps unfolding, day after ordinary day.
Sarah called last week with news: she’d been offered a position with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit after graduation. “It’s everything I’ve been working toward, Mom. Everything.”
“Then you take it,” I said, pride swelling in my chest. “You take it and you help people the way you helped us.”
Daniel retired this year and immediately threw himself into volunteering—teaching woodworking to high school students, building furniture for families transitioning out of shelters, mentoring young engineers. I watch him work in our small garage workshop, and I think about how love should look: steady, reliable, interested in building rather than destroying.
The scholarship fund has now supported thirty-seven students. Thirty-seven people whose educations might not have been possible without a tragedy turned into purpose. We receive letters and emails from them—updates about graduations and job offers, wedding invitations and birth announcements. They’ve built lives and careers and families, and in a small way, we helped make that possible.
I still teach at the community college, still love the rhythm of semesters and the satisfaction of watching students improve. I still buy tulips at the farmers market and make lemon pasta on Tuesdays and walk by the lake on Sunday mornings. The ordinary rhythms of life that once felt mundane now feel precious, earned, chosen.
Sometimes students who know my story ask how I moved forward after something so traumatic. I tell them the truth: you do it one day at a time. You build small routines that feel safe. You surround yourself with people who’ve earned your trust. You choose, actively and repeatedly, to believe that good things are possible.
And you listen to the people who love you, especially when they’re fourteen years old and sliding notes across kitchen counters.
The wooden box sits on my dresser, ordinary and unremarkable unless you know what it holds. Inside is a piece of paper that changed everything, five words that built a bridge between certain death and uncertain future, between who I was and who I’ve become.
Pretend to be sick and leave.
I didn’t just leave that house. I left behind the version of myself who ignored red flags and explained away inconsistencies. I left behind the woman who valued politeness over safety, performance over truth. And in her place, I became someone who listens to her instincts, trusts her daughter, and knows that survival is not just about staying alive—it’s about building a life worth the effort it takes to protect it.
Our story ends not with revenge or dramatic closure, but with something better: peace. The kind that comes from knowing we made the right choices when it mattered most. The kind that lives in Tuesday pasta dinners and Saturday farmers markets and Sunday phone calls with a daughter who’s out there making the world safer for people she’ll never meet.
We’re still here. We built this. And every ordinary, beautiful, hard-won day is its own quiet victory.
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