<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>The story in poems&nbsp;reads like a movie and exposes the bitter compromises a couple will make with abuse and love. Lyrical accomplished poems examine and ultimately reveal why we stay as the poet recovers herself and her love through the language of healing. Courageous honest sometimes funny the poet writes the book her friends said she'd have to wait to publish until her husband died but he read the poems and as proof of the couple's bond told her to go ahead and send it out It's good and it's your life. You deserve to be heard.</span></p>