My off-base apartment was supposed to be the safest place in the world at 2:00 a.m.—until my stepfather kicked the door off its hinges and tried to choke me on my own floor while my mother watched from the hallway and did nothing. I thought I was going to die… until my fingertips hit an old field radio and I slammed the SOS button. What answered that signal didn’t just save me— it burned our entire family to the ground.
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