A Domestic Violence Survivor's Blueprint for Getting Out — Part Memoir, Part Legal and Financial Guide, Part Political Warning

The weapons to make that credible already lived in the apartment. What he did not have was forty dollars a week, a bank three blocks away, a woman named Asha, and thirty-three months of quiet arithmetic.

April 1990. A Tuesday. A baby two years old in a stroller, the city indifferent, the future already decided.

The men now holding federal power are working to eliminate the law that made the exit possible. The Vice President suggested violent marriages should have continued for the children. The Speaker called no fault divorce a contributor to a completely amoral society. More than $200 million in survivor funding last fiscal year was never distributed.

The door is closing.

Escape From Perdition is the guide that should have existed in 1987. Part testimony. Part blueprint. Entirely true.

The pattern is never the relationship. The pattern is the man.

Wendy A. Lawrence

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