
She was only nine years old . . .
She was only nine years old but the violence she’d seen rivaled that of a combat soldier, except that she went into this war with no defense training and no backup. Her name was Molly. It didn’t happen every night but there were warning signs on the nights when it did. He didn’t come home from work on time. Her mom fell asleep on the sofa after a few drinks and forgot to fix dinner for her and her little brother, Max. There was no milk, so Molly fixed them dry cereal for dinn