I spent 21 days in a Portland hospital learning to breathe past pain; I came home to something meaner. My son stood in the doorway of my Victorian like a TSA agent with a script. “The house isn’t yours,” he said—cool, rehearsed. Behind him, my daughter-in-law wore my emerald earrings, and her parents drifted through my living room as if they’d always lived under that ceiling where we hang the flag every Memorial Day.
He said “power of attorney,” said “for your best interest,” said my things were in boxes in the garage, said a “senior facility” would be more appropriate. Somewhere on the block a golden retriever barked; the maples sifted October light; the world in the United States kept doing what it does—pretending fairness is automatic.
I didn’t cry. I looked at the staircase where William carried me the year we finished restoring the crown molding, at the window where the Fourth of July fireworks used to reflect in the glass, at the earrings that were never hers. Then I said two words, steady as a gavel: “Enjoy it.”
Her mother flinched; my son didn’t. He told me not to come back. I nodded like he’d reported tomorrow’s weather, turned—careful with the hip that is healing on its own time—and walked to the taxi I’d told to wait.
I didn’t dial 911. Not yet. I didn’t call the bank, the HOA president, or the neighbor who brings casseroles when grief parks on your lawn. I checked into a downtown hotel where the desk clerk didn’t ask questions and the coffee tasted like decisions. I set my cane against the desk, opened the small black notebook I once used as a banking-compliance officer, and wrote three lines:
— What they think they have — What they actually have — What I still hold
Then I texted three words to the only person who has known me longer than my son has been alive.
One call to a number I promised myself I would never use again. One email with a subject line that turns very polite people very alert. One photograph from a drawer they didn’t open. By the time the streetlights clicked on over our pretty American block, I had three dates circled, two addresses confirmed, and one phrase copied from a statute that makes grown men sit down.
Tonight, they’re pouring wine in my kitchen and choosing guest rooms by the size of the closet. Tonight, they think I am what they called me on that porch: tired, small, alone. Tomorrow, a porch light will blink twice, a knock will sound like a clock striking noon, and someone who says “ma’am” will ask me to stand exactly where I can see everything I’ve been told is “final.”
I won’t touch a doorknob. I won’t raise my voice. I’ll simply watch the paper everyone swore was destiny behave like what it is—paper—while something heavier lands on the table with a sound my daughter-in-law has never heard and my son will never forget.
The first call I made was to Margaret Chen, who I’d worked with for twenty-three years at Pacific National Bank. Margaret, who had witnessed my signature on every single legal document I’d ever filed. Margaret, who knew that the power of attorney my son was waving around like a flag had very specific limitations—limitations I’d insisted on when William got sick and I’d drafted it with our attorney, just in case.
“Eleanor,” Margaret said when she answered. Her voice carried the same precision it always had. “I heard you were in the hospital. Are you alright?”
“I’m fine,” I said, sitting on the hotel bed with my notebook open. “But I need you to pull my records. Every document filed in the last thirty days. Every signature. Every notarization.”
There was a pause. Margaret had worked fraud prevention long enough to hear the shape of trouble in silence.
“What am I looking for?”
“A forged quitclaim deed,” I said. “And possibly a fraudulent power of attorney activation.”
“Eleanor, does this involve your son?”
“It does.”
Another pause. Then the sound of her fingers on a keyboard. “I’m pulling your files now. Give me until morning.”
The second call was harder. I dialed a number I’d kept in my phone for seven years under the name “Sarah M.” Sarah Martinez had been my attorney since William’s death, the one who’d helped me navigate probate, update my will, and establish the trust that my son apparently didn’t know existed.
“Mrs. Harrison,” Sarah answered, always formal even after years. “I wasn’t expecting to hear from you.”
“I need you to file an emergency motion,” I said. “My son has unlawfully occupied my property and is claiming authority he doesn’t possess.”
I heard papers rustling. “Start from the beginning.”
I told her everything. The hospital stay, the return home, the in-laws installed like fixtures, my belongings boxed, the earrings on my daughter-in-law’s ears that had been my mother’s, passed down through three generations.
“Did he present you with any paperwork?” Sarah asked.
“He mentioned power of attorney. But Sarah, the POA I signed with you only activates if I’m incapacitated. I’m standing here talking to you.”
“Exactly,” she said, and I could hear the smile in her voice. “Which means if he’s used it, he’s committed fraud. I’ll need you at my office first thing tomorrow. Bring your hospital discharge papers showing you were released with full mental capacity.”
“I have them.”
“Good. We’re going to file for immediate possession, report the POA fraud to the DA, and get a temporary restraining order. Eleanor, your son has made several very expensive mistakes.”
The third call was to someone I’d sworn I’d never speak to again: my ex-husband’s brother, Thomas. He was a detective with Portland PD, retired now but still connected. We hadn’t spoken since William’s funeral, where harsh words about the will had been exchanged.
“Eleanor?” His voice was cautious. “It’s been a long time.”
“I need your help,” I said simply. “And I know you don’t owe me anything after what happened, but this isn’t about us.”
“What’s wrong?”
I told him about the house, the occupation, the power of attorney fraud. When I finished, Thomas was quiet for a long moment.
“That’s elder abuse,” he said finally. “Financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult. If he used forged documents, that’s multiple felonies. You want me to make some calls?”
“I want you to tell me if what I’m planning is legal,” I said. “Because tomorrow, I’m walking back into that house with a lawyer, a locksmith, and whoever else Sarah tells me to bring. And I’m taking back what’s mine.”
“You have every legal right,” Thomas said. “But Eleanor, be careful. Desperate people do stupid things.”
“Then they’ll do them in front of witnesses,” I replied.
That night, I barely slept. I reviewed every document in my files—the deed in my name alone, the trust documents, the carefully limited power of attorney that specified it only activated with two doctors’ signatures confirming incapacity. My son had neither.
At 6 a.m., Margaret called. “Eleanor, you need to see this. I’m sending photos to your email.”
I opened my laptop. There, in high-resolution scans, was a quitclaim deed supposedly signed by me ten days ago—while I was in the ICU recovering from emergency surgery. The signature was close, but not quite right. The notary seal belonged to someone I’d never met.
“That’s forgery,” I said.
“That’s prison time,” Margaret corrected. “I’ve already flagged it with the bank’s fraud department. They’re filing a report with the DA this morning.”
At 8 a.m., I met Sarah at her office. She had a paralegal and an intern waiting, all business.
“We’re filing emergency motions in thirty minutes,” she said. “By noon, we’ll have a hearing scheduled. The judge is going to want to see you in person, hear that you’re competent, review the medical records.”
“I’m ready.”
“Eleanor,” Sarah said, her voice softening slightly. “This is going to get ugly. Your son will fight this. His in-laws will be exposed for receiving stolen property. Are you prepared for that?”
I thought about the emerald earrings, about my mother fastening them on her wedding day, about the promise I’d made to pass them down to a daughter I never had. I thought about my son standing in my doorway telling me I had no home.
“I spent three weeks in a hospital fighting to survive,” I said. “I’m not going to let him take what I survived for.”
At 11 a.m., we were in court. The judge was a woman about my age, reading glasses perched on her nose, reviewing the emergency motion with the careful attention of someone who knew exactly what elder abuse looked like.
My son wasn’t there—he hadn’t been served yet. That would come later.
“Mrs. Harrison,” the judge said, looking at me over her glasses. “You were discharged from Oregon Health & Science University four days ago following complications from hip surgery. Is that correct?”
“Yes, Your Honor.”
“And your discharge papers indicate you were released with full mental capacity, no cognitive impairment, capable of independent living with minimal assistance.”
“That’s correct.”
“Yet your son has activated a power of attorney and transferred ownership of your home.”
“He’s attempted to, Your Honor. The deed is forged.”
The judge looked at the documents Sarah had submitted. The forged quitclaim. The fraudulent notarization. The limited POA that clearly stated its conditions.
“I’m issuing an immediate order of possession,” she said. “Mrs. Harrison, you are the legal owner of the property in question. Your son and his in-laws are to vacate immediately. I’m also issuing a temporary restraining order prohibiting them from accessing your property or your financial accounts pending a full hearing.” She paused. “And I’m referring this matter to the District Attorney’s office for criminal investigation.”
Sarah squeezed my hand under the table.
By 2 p.m., we were standing on my porch. Sarah, Margaret, Thomas in his retired-detective capacity, a locksmith, and two Portland police officers who’d been assigned to ensure the order was enforced.
I rang my own doorbell.
My daughter-in-law answered. She was still wearing the earrings. When she saw the police, the color drained from her face.
“Mrs. Harrison has a court order,” one of the officers said. “You need to vacate this property immediately.”
“This is insane,” she said, but her voice was shaking. “Eric! ERIC!”
My son appeared, confident until he saw the badges. “Mom, what is this?”
“This,” I said calmly, “is me taking back what you stole.”
Sarah stepped forward, handing him papers. “You’ve been served with an emergency possession order, a restraining order, and notice of criminal investigation for fraud, forgery, and elder abuse.”
“Elder abuse?” His laugh was nervous. “She’s my mother, I was helping her—”
“By forging her signature on a quitclaim deed while she was in the ICU?” Sarah’s voice was ice. “By activating a power of attorney without the required medical certifications? By moving your in-laws into her home and disposing of her property?”
Her parents appeared in the hallway behind them, holding luggage. They’d clearly been following the conversation.
“You have thirty minutes to collect your personal belongings,” the officer said. “Anything belonging to Mrs. Harrison stays here.”
“The earrings,” I said, looking at my daughter-in-law. “Those belonged to my mother. Take them off.”
“These were a gift—”
“They were stolen property,” Margaret interjected. “Would you like to be charged with receiving stolen goods, or would you prefer to return them now?”
She removed them with shaking hands and placed them in my palm. They were warm from her skin. I closed my fist around them.
For the next thirty minutes, I stood in my own foyer with my support team while my son and his in-laws scrambled. I watched them carry out suitcases, watched her parents leave without meeting my eyes, watched my son’s face progress from anger to panic to something that might have been shame.
The locksmith was already changing the locks.
“Mom,” my son tried one last time as they were leaving. “We can work this out. I was just trying to help—”
“You were trying to steal,” I said. “And you did it while I was fighting for my life in a hospital bed. There is no working this out, Eric. There are consequences.”
“I’m your son!”
“You were my son,” I corrected. “Now you’re someone who committed crimes against me. The DA will be in touch.”
He opened his mouth to respond, but Sarah stepped between us. “Mr. Harrison, any further contact with my client violates the restraining order. I suggest you leave now.”
They left. The silver Mercedes—bought with money I now suspected came from my own accounts—pulled away from my curb for the last time.
The locksmith finished. Sarah handed me a new set of keys.
“Welcome home, Eleanor,” she said.
I stood in my living room, really stood in it for the first time in three weeks. Everything looked the same but felt different. Violated. They’d moved furniture, hung different curtains, put their belongings on my shelves like they belonged there.
“We’ll need to do an inventory,” Margaret said gently. “Document everything that’s missing or damaged for the civil suit.”
“Civil suit?” I asked.
“Oh yes,” Sarah said. “Criminal charges are just the beginning. We’re suing for damages, emotional distress, theft, and costs. Your son’s very expensive mistake is about to get much more expensive.”
Over the next week, the full scope of Eric’s fraud emerged. He’d not only forged the quitclaim deed but had also attempted to access my investment accounts, my social security, even my health insurance. He’d told the hospital billing department I was incapacitated and tried to redirect my mail to his address.
The DA assigned a prosecutor who specialized in elder abuse. Her name was Jennifer Reyes, and she was terrifyingly competent.
“Mrs. Harrison,” she said when we met in her office, “your son has committed at least seven felonies. With the evidence we have—the forged documents, the unauthorized account access, the fraudulent use of power of attorney—we’re looking at significant prison time.”
“How significant?”
“Five to ten years if he pleads out. Fifteen to twenty if he goes to trial and loses.”
I sat with that number. My son. In prison for potentially two decades.
“He has a choice,” Jennifer continued. “He can cooperate, return everything he took, plead guilty to reduced charges, and face lighter sentencing. Or he can fight it and face the maximum.”
“What would you recommend?”
“Honestly? Let him make his own choice. He’s an adult who made adult decisions to commit serious crimes. The consequences are his to face.”
The preliminary hearing was set for two weeks later. Eric hired a lawyer—a expensive one, which made me wonder where that money came from. His in-laws were named as co-defendants for receiving stolen property and conspiracy.
I sat in the courtroom with Sarah, Margaret, and Thomas. My son wouldn’t look at me.
His attorney tried to paint me as vindictive, as an angry mother punishing her son for trying to help. But Jennifer was prepared.
She presented the forged deed. The fraudulent notarization. The hospital records showing I was unconscious when the documents were supposedly signed. The bank records showing unauthorized access attempts. The testimony from my neighbors about the moving trucks that arrived while I was in ICU.
“Your Honor,” Jennifer said, “this isn’t a family dispute. This is a calculated scheme to defraud a vulnerable adult of her home and assets while she was incapacitated. The defendant didn’t make a mistake. He made a plan.”
The judge reviewed the evidence with the same careful attention I’d seen before.
“Mr. Harrison,” she said, “I’m binding you over for trial on all charges. Bail is set at fifty thousand dollars.”
Eric’s face went white. His lawyer whispered frantically.
“Your Honor,” the lawyer said, “my client is not a flight risk—”
“Your client is a demonstrated fraud risk,” the judge interrupted. “Bail stands. Trial is set for sixty days from now.”
As they led Eric away to process bail, he finally looked at me. Really looked at me. I saw the moment he understood that this was real, that his mother wasn’t going to save him, that his choices had consequences he couldn’t charm or manipulate his way out of.
I felt nothing. Not satisfaction, not grief. Just a cold, clear certainty that I’d done the right thing.
Outside the courthouse, reporters were waiting. Apparently, elder abuse cases involving prominent families made news.
“Mrs. Harrison, do you have any comment about your son’s arrest?”
I stopped, leaning on my cane, and thought carefully about my words.
“I have this to say: No one is entitled to take what isn’t theirs, regardless of their relationship to you. My son made choices. Now he faces consequences. That’s not cruelty. That’s justice.”
“Do you plan to reconcile with him?”
“I plan to heal from what he did to me,” I said. “What he does with his life is his decision.”
The trial came faster than I expected. Eric’s lawyer tried to negotiate—return everything, full restitution, guilty plea to reduced charges. The DA’s offer: Four years, supervised release, permanent restraining order.
Eric refused. He wanted to go to trial.
“He thinks he can win,” Sarah told me. “His lawyer is going to argue you were manipulative, that you’d promised him the house, that he believed he had your consent.”
“Let him try,” I said.
The trial lasted six days. I testified on day three. The courtroom was full—not just lawyers and press, but people who’d been following the case. Other elderly people who’d been exploited by family members. Advocates. Social workers.
“Mrs. Harrison,” the prosecutor asked me, “did you ever give your son permission to transfer ownership of your home?”
“Never.”
“Did you ever tell him you wanted to move to a care facility?”
“Never.”
“Were you mentally incapable at any point during your hospital stay?”
“No. I had hip surgery, not brain surgery. I was lucid, oriented, and making my own medical decisions the entire time.”
The defense attorney’s cross-examination was brutal. She tried to make me seem confused, forgetful, vindictive.
“Mrs. Harrison, isn’t it true you and your son had a difficult relationship?”
“We had a normal relationship until he tried to steal my house.”
“Isn’t it true you disapproved of his wife?”
“I didn’t know her well enough to approve or disapprove. But I know enough now to know she was wearing my mother’s earrings without permission.”
“You seem very angry, Mrs. Harrison.”
“I’m not angry,” I said, looking directly at the jury. “I’m clear. My son committed crimes against me. That’s not an opinion. That’s documented fact.”
The jury deliberated for four hours. When they came back, the forewoman stood.
“On the count of forgery in the first degree, we find the defendant guilty.”
“On the count of fraud in the first degree, we find the defendant guilty.”
“On the count of elder abuse in the first degree, we find the defendant guilty.”
Guilty. On all seven counts.
Eric’s face crumpled. His wife was crying in the gallery. Her parents had already taken a plea deal and received probation plus restitution.
Sentencing was set for three weeks later.
Sarah and I sat in a coffee shop afterward, both of us exhausted.
“How do you feel?” she asked.
“Like I survived something I shouldn’t have had to survive,” I said. “Like I won something I shouldn’t have had to fight for.”
“You did,” Sarah said gently. “Eleanor, you were incredibly brave.”
“I was incredibly stubborn,” I corrected. “There’s a difference.”
The day of sentencing, I almost didn’t go. Thomas convinced me I needed to.
“You need to see this through,” he said. “All the way to the end.”
So I sat in the courtroom one final time while the judge reviewed pre-sentencing reports, character statements, and impact statements.
“Does the victim wish to speak?” the judge asked.
Sarah looked at me. I hadn’t planned to. But I stood anyway, leaning on my cane.
“Your Honor, I don’t want to speak about what my son did. The evidence did that. I want to speak about what happens to people like me when their families betray them.”
I looked at Eric. “We become afraid. Afraid to trust, afraid to be vulnerable, afraid to need help. We die alone in nursing homes we didn’t choose because we can’t risk giving anyone power over our lives again.”
My voice shook but held. “My son didn’t just try to steal my house. He tried to steal my ability to ever feel safe again. That’s what elder abuse does. It doesn’t just take assets. It takes dignity, autonomy, and trust.”
I turned back to the judge. “Whatever sentence you give him, know that I’ve already served mine. I’ll spend the rest of my life wondering if I can trust anyone, if every kindness is a manipulation, if needing help makes me a target.”
I sat down. The courtroom was silent.
The judge looked at Eric. “Mr. Harrison, do you have anything to say?”
He stood slowly. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I made mistakes. I got bad advice. I thought I was helping—”
“Stop,” the judge interrupted. “You were not helping. You were stealing. The evidence makes that abundantly clear. You forged your mother’s signature while she was in ICU recovering from surgery. You moved your in-laws into her home. You boxed up her belongings and told her not to come back. Those are not the actions of someone helping. Those are the actions of someone who believed their mother’s life was disposable.”
She paused, reviewing her notes.
“I’m sentencing you to six years in state prison, with credit for time served. You will also pay full restitution, estimated at seventy-five thousand dollars for legal fees, emotional damages, and theft. Upon release, you will be on supervised probation for five years and will be prohibited from contact with your mother unless she initiates it.”
Eric sagged in his chair. His lawyer placed a hand on his shoulder.
“Bailiff,” the judge said.
As they led him away in handcuffs, Eric looked at me one last time. I didn’t look away. I wanted him to see that I had survived him, that I was still here, still standing.
The courtroom cleared. Sarah walked me out through a side door to avoid the press.
“It’s over,” she said.
“It’s over,” I repeated.
But it didn’t feel over. It felt like the beginning of something I didn’t have a name for yet.
Two years later, I stood in my garden planting roses—the climbing kind that would eventually cover the trellis William built before he died. My hip had healed completely. I’d sold the Victorian for a smaller craftsman-style home with no stairs, no memories of betrayal, just clean light and possibility.
The emerald earrings sat in a safe deposit box. I’d thought about selling them, but decided instead to donate them to a museum with a plaque: “In memory of women whose stories were almost erased.”
I got a letter once from Eric. Forwarded through Sarah, who checked it first for threats. It was an apology—longer, more detailed, possibly more genuine. He was in a prison program, he wrote, learning about elder abuse from the inside. He understood now what he’d done. He was sorry.
I read it once and filed it away. Maybe someday I’d respond. Maybe not. The choice was mine, and that mattered more than the outcome.
I’d started volunteering at a senior advocacy center, helping others navigate the legal system when family members exploited them. I heard versions of my story over and over—children who stole, spouses who controlled, relatives who saw elderly people as assets to be liquidated.
“What do I do?” they’d ask me, afraid and ashamed.
“You fight,” I’d say. “Not because you’ll win everything back. But because you deserve to be treated like a person, not a bank account with a heartbeat.”
One woman, Maria, reminded me of myself two years earlier. Her daughter had drained her accounts and sold her car.
“I’m her mother,” Maria said, crying. “How do I send my own daughter to jail?”
“You’re not sending her to jail,” I said gently. “She sent herself when she chose to steal from you. You’re just refusing to pretend it didn’t happen.”
Maria filed charges. Her daughter pleaded out and repaid everything. They don’t speak now, but Maria sleeps better knowing her remaining assets are protected.
On the anniversary of my hospital discharge, I did something I’d been putting off. I visited William’s grave.
“I survived it,” I told the marble headstone. “The surgery, the betrayal, all of it. I’m still here.”
I placed flowers—white roses, his favorite—and sat on the bench nearby.
“Our son went to prison,” I said. “I testified against him. I don’t know if you’d be proud of me or disappointed. But I know I did what I had to do to survive.”
A breeze moved through the cemetery, rustling leaves.
“I miss you,” I whispered. “I miss having someone in my corner who didn’t want anything from me except me.”
I stayed until the light began to fade, then drove home to my small house where everything belonged to me and no one could take it away.
That night, I opened my laptop and began writing. Not a memoir—I wasn’t ready for that. But a guide. Something practical for people facing what I’d faced.
I titled it: “When Family Becomes the Threat: A Survival Guide for Elder Financial Abuse.”
It started with three lines, the same ones I’d written in that hotel room two years ago:
— What they think they have — What they actually have
— What you still hold
Because the truth I’d learned through fire was this: They could take my house, my belongings, my sense of safety. But they couldn’t take my clarity, my resolve, or my absolute refusal to disappear quietly.
I was Eleanor Harrison. I was seventy-three years old. I had survived my son’s betrayal, reclaimed my life, and built something new from the rubble.
And I wasn’t finished yet.
Three years after that terrible day when I came home from the hospital to find strangers in my house, I received an email notification from the Department of Corrections.
Eric was up for early release. Good behavior, completion of rehabilitation programs. The parole board was reviewing his case.
As his victim, I had the right to attend the hearing and make a statement.
I sat with that information for a week. Sarah called to discuss it.
“You don’t have to go,” she said. “You can submit a written statement.”
“What would you do?” I asked.
“I’d go,” she said. “I’d look him in the eye one more time and remind him—and the parole board—exactly what he did.”
So I went.
The hearing room was smaller than I expected. Eric sat with his attorney, wearing prison clothes that hung loose on a frame that had thinned considerably. He’d aged a decade in three years.
When I entered, he looked up. Something flickered in his eyes—shame, maybe, or fear.
The parole board reviewed his case: model prisoner, completed anger management, financial literacy programs, victim empathy training. His counselor spoke about his transformation.
Then they asked me to speak.
I stood slowly, my cane steady against the floor.
“Three years ago,” I began, “my son forged my signature while I was in a hospital bed fighting for my life. He moved strangers into my home. He told me I had nowhere to go. He looked me in the eye and said, ‘Don’t come back.'”
I paused, making sure every word landed.
“He didn’t do this because he was desperate or confused. He did it because he believed I was disposable. That my life, my home, my dignity mattered less than his convenience.”
I looked directly at Eric.
“I hope he’s changed. I genuinely do. But I also know that three years of good behavior in a controlled environment doesn’t erase what he did. It doesn’t rebuild the trust he destroyed. And it doesn’t mean I’m safe around him.”
I turned back to the board.
“If you release him, that’s your decision. But know this: I will never allow him access to my life again. The restraining order will remain in place. And if he violates it, I will not hesitate to report it.”
I sat down.
The board deliberated for twenty minutes. When they returned, the chairwoman spoke.
“Mr. Harrison, we’re granting parole with conditions. You will maintain no contact with your mother. You will continue counseling. You will complete your restitution payments. Any violation results in immediate return to custody.”
Eric was released two weeks later. I heard about it through Sarah. He moved to Seattle, got a job in construction, was reportedly staying clean and meeting his obligations.
I felt nothing about it. Not relief, not anxiety. Just a distant acknowledgment that he was out there, somewhere, living a life that no longer intersected with mine.
And that was exactly how I wanted it.
On my seventy-fifth birthday, I threw a party. Not a big one—just the people who mattered. Sarah and her wife. Margaret and her husband. Thomas and his partner. Maria from the advocacy center and a dozen other survivors I’d worked with.
We ate cake in my garden under the climbing roses that had finally covered the trellis. We toasted with champagne. We told stories that made us laugh instead of cry.
“To Eleanor,” Sarah said, raising her glass. “Who taught us all that survival is just the beginning. The real victory is building a life worth surviving for.”
“To Eleanor,” they echoed.
I looked around at these people—my chosen family, my army, my witnesses. None of them were related to me by blood. All of them had seen me at my weakest and still thought I was strong.
“To all of us,” I corrected. “For refusing to disappear quietly.”
We clinked glasses as the sun set over my small, perfect garden, and I understood something profound: The best revenge isn’t making them pay. It’s building a life so full they can’t fit into it anymore.
I had done that.
I was still doing that.
And I would keep doing it for as long as I drew breath.
Because I was Eleanor Harrison. And I had survived.
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