When things get difficult, you can either give up or try harder, right? It's... surprising, sometimes, when you think you can't go on, and then you're still going, and going.

It's really... I can't stress how good it is to know that someone else cares. We need that support network, we have to protect the kids, and if we manage it then we know we're doing our best.

[A troubled pause at her mention of her attackers, the attackers of others.]

I know. I think about it a lot, too.