Please don’t kill me. (She says her letter was in response to one from him in which he allegedly refused to pay her child support.) He tells this story with a shake of his head, the remorse threading itself through his body language. How many women across time? I think. How many have pled this same sentence? Women around the world, in a thousand languages, across the centuries, the span of human existence. Please don’t kill me. See how polite we women are? We say “please” when we’re begging for our lives.
