Domestic violence is real and it is scary.

One survivor's story:

Standing across the room, he threw the screwdriver towards me just inches from my head as it stuck into the wall behind me. I asked him to stop, grabbed the screwdriver and asked him to leave. He said with even more evil in his eyes, “That’s OK, Babe, I’ve got this!” flipping out a 4 inch pocket knife.

I went to high school with the author. The fact that she was a hair's breadth from being a statistic is chilling.

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