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My pregnant daughter was terrified of what would happen in the operating room. Bruises covered her body, but she begged me to keep them hidden: her husband, the powerful director of the hospital where she was about to give birth, had promised she wouldn’t survive if she tried to leave him. I helped her into her gown and smiled, letting him believe I could do nothing. Before our grandchild was born, his downfall was already in motion.
My daughter, Emily, caught my wrist as another contraction folded her in half. Beneath the bright lights of the maternity ward, I could see purple marks climbing above the collar…