“Thank God, Leeci, that you don’t know what it’s like to be afraid of a man the way I was afraid. At first, I said nothing because I was ashamed, and then it went from shame to fear, not only for you all but myself. When you have the police coming to your home and not doing anything or telling you they can arrest him, but he’ll be out soon, you start to lose hope, and that’s what happened to me. “Cedric is a man who would lose his own life to be sure he took mine. So I was scared, ashamed, and felt weak; I was weak. I was putting on a mask around you guys, pretending I was good and fine, and
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