It is a failure to understand these critical moments in context that makes the “Why didn’t she leave?” question so maddening. Look at Michelle Monson Mosure. Look at any intimate partner homicide anywhere in any given year and it will be the same: she tried every which way she could. She tried and tried, but the equation, or rather, the question, isn’t a matter of leaving or staying. It’s a matter of living or dying. They stay because they choose to live. And they die anyway. Michelle Mosure stayed for her kids and for herself. She stayed for pride and she stayed for love and she stayed for
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