There are changes coming. Soon. I will be dropping the semi-anonymous shroud.

I am not very good at being semi-anonymous, anyway.

Please be patient with me.

Tonight was difficult. I can not say more about what happened yet.

But I can repeat the great advice my lawyer gave me in prep for the meeting:

He said: "Elizabeth, many of the people on this planet live in societies where they know that anytime they step into court, the verdict has already been decided. They know that truth will not get in the way of it, either. Remember when you go into this meeting, that the decision has already been made. There is nothing you can say that will challenge it or alter its course. You're a fighter, you'll want to get in there and prove yourself. You can't, And it will only hurt you to try. Maintain your composure. Agree to nothing. Make no comments. Acknowledge you have heard them when they force a response. And do no more."

And so it went. My trusty mute button earning its pay. It felt like surrender at first, and, yeah, my outrage still simmers.

CD sat beside me, in the pretty office he built me, and rubbed my back. And afterwards, when I cried, held me close.

I will survive. That's all I know for sure right now.

P.S. - I think I have the comments working again. Fingers crossed. Amazing what I have learned to do in Notepad on my off hours....

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