Michelle Kane

It's more that my love for this child has already grown to the point of eclipsing my love for my husband, and his response will not alter this core love that I feel within me.

Whatever happens, I will protect my child, and I can only hope that my husband will be on our side.

I am driven now by pure maternal faith, which sustains my newborn girl in me.

We are together in this world and have a bond more powerful than anything I might have imagined.

The first time I held her in my arms, I felt a completeness that I'd lacked in my life up to that point.

This dome of protection I have cast over the two of us feels like the work of my whole being.

and what I am meant to do.

Nothing will harm this girl while I have breath to defend her.

My husband wanted her gone before she was born, and he didn't get his way, in any possible way.

He had the potential to use my family history to separate me from my child, and there was simply no way I could allow such a thing.

This alone demonstrates the strength of my love for my baby girl

I know what my mother tried to do to me, and I know what happened at Fire Creek.

I know it the way nobody on Earth knows it, to the foundation of my intellect and the shuddering crux of my soul.

I know all the cases, know where these things can go.

Normal people emerging as monsters.

The worst things that can happen.

I know all of that, and I don't think it applies to me.

Nothing will deter me from protecting my child, and nothing I have done to protect her makes me a monster.

I don't need the absolution of a priest or the forgiveness of a skeptical husband to reassure my moral compass.

I will keep my daughter safe, whatever it takes.