Shelby Young as Barbara Gordon
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The press wouldn't even have bothered if I hadn't been your daughter, Dad.
You refuse to have police guarding our home.
Every other big city police commissioner has them, but you wanted to symbolize how open your administration is.
So began my six months in shadows.
I went to both my physical and emotional therapists.
I had to accept I was never going to walk again.
Part of my spine was shot away, the spinal cord hopelessly damaged.
Worst of all was the fear I felt of being physically helpless, unable to defend myself, of having no sense of self, of feeling that I meant nothing, that my life was now over.
I sat in the back bedroom of my father's apartment for weeks, afraid to go out, afraid of the next day.
And what would happen to me if, God forbid, Dad should die or be killed?