“…her husband was an alcoholic, but so clean cut. I didn’t really put two-and-two together until she came to me and said, ‘I need your help. My husband is going out of town soon, and I’ve got to leave while he’s gone or he’ll kill me.’”
At xoJane, Haley B. Elkins writes about the help her mom provided to abused women in small-town rural Texas during Elkins’s childhood.
It’s a remarkable story, not least because her mom doesn’t see her actions as political or as part of a larger feminist movement. “You’re reading way too much into all that,” she says, though that’s clearly not the case.
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