Excerpts from I Loved You More
"He grabbed my shoulders. He put his face so close to mine I saw his nostrils flare and felt his hot breath. His eyes bulged and burned at me. He clenched his jaw. He was furious.
He was a stranger. He shook me. In the blur, he raised a fist high in the air and my life flashed before my eyes."
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"But I prayed--I prayed harder than ever. And just before midnight, at 11:45 p.m., the guardian ad litem took the stand and said, 'Your Honor, I am about to do something I have never done in my entire career.'”
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"After that practice I confronted Colby. 'Colby, you never even played football in college, let alone played quarterback. You just lied to all of them.'
The sides of his mouth curled up in a sneer and with a single cocked eyebrow he chuckled and said, 'Regina, it’s all in how you spin the story.'"
"Livid, I burned off a reply.
'I am sure you would inform Gabriel of the legal issues that go on between his parents as you use him as a tool to make yourself look better. So, heed your own advice as things biting you back will haunt you, not me. When he is an adult and can think for himself, he will come to his own conclusions based on what he has experienced and lived in each of his homes. I have never involved him or put him in the middle as you have. He is a child and, unfortunately, a victim of your selfishness, yet I have never communicated anything negative about you or your negligence to him. That would be wrong. Can you say the same?'"
"He grabbed my shoulders. He put his face so close to mine I saw his nostrils flare and felt his hot breath. His eyes bulged and burned at me. He clenched his jaw. He was furious.
He was a stranger. He shook me. In the blur, he raised a fist high in the air and my life flashed before my eyes."
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"But I prayed--I prayed harder than ever. And just before midnight, at 11:45 p.m., the guardian ad litem took the stand and said, 'Your Honor, I am about to do something I have never done in my entire career.'”
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"After that practice I confronted Colby. 'Colby, you never even played football in college, let alone played quarterback. You just lied to all of them.'
The sides of his mouth curled up in a sneer and with a single cocked eyebrow he chuckled and said, 'Regina, it’s all in how you spin the story.'"
"Livid, I burned off a reply.
'I am sure you would inform Gabriel of the legal issues that go on between his parents as you use him as a tool to make yourself look better. So, heed your own advice as things biting you back will haunt you, not me. When he is an adult and can think for himself, he will come to his own conclusions based on what he has experienced and lived in each of his homes. I have never involved him or put him in the middle as you have. He is a child and, unfortunately, a victim of your selfishness, yet I have never communicated anything negative about you or your negligence to him. That would be wrong. Can you say the same?'"