Dani

Like when he would get purses or big chunks of change or cash or this one time that they were able to hit the same car three times in one week.

And how they got like all this gym equipment and how they got the iPod.

And then he tells me the only thing I didn't flip was there was a lime green auxiliary cord.

And it was my favorite color.

And I'd never seen one color before.

So I kept that and I still have it.

I fully dissociated because in what world am I sitting there in the youth correctional facility as the substance abuse counselor for the kid that robbed me blind?

Three times.

This is Sim.

Monica, your dad was putting in overtime.

Well, and ultimately, that's kind of where I landed.

So I just kind of froze in the moment because I did have so much respect for how hard it was for him to create a trusting relationship with someone, given everything that had happened to get him to that point in his life.

And I didn't want to destroy that.

I knew that if I responded the wrong way, that therapeutic relationship was gone.

So in reflecting on it in supervision with my supervisor and my college mentor, he needed something from me when we were having that conversation.

And he needed something from me when he was rounding my car.

And I didn't need anything from him.

I'm not interested.

He was the associate athletic director and I was the grad assistant.

So we have three children.