“She said there isn’t a woman on this earth that can take my spot. She didn’t say that her husband hadn’t tried to put a child in her spot.” Amalia thought. Amalia had no way of knowing that Sylvia repeated those words to herself every day. It was the mantra that she used daily to keep her sanity. She knew it was a huge lie. There was nothing a woman could do for a man the preferred his companion underage. Sadly, to keep the life that she lived, even if she had to sacrifice her own children, she tolerated and encouraged her husband’s perversion.