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Hayley felt a lump in her throat She was afraid if she spoke, Thor would not continue

Perhaps I should start at the beginning She told ston When she found out that she ith child, she told my parents about the relationship and that shortly after the wedding, her husband had abandoned her Late one night she caston She asked e she lived in, so thatfor her"

"Why would she do that?"

"She told raced that she was raising a child without a husband

She feared it would be rumored that she never had a husband and that our parents would believe it too"

"They would have been tor she had died"

"I think she lied about having been abandoned by a husband, and she feared they would find out"

"So she let therandchild had died too?"

"Yes"

"How could you be a part of it?"

"I have been tormented every day"