Echoes of Solace

But where could they even go? Maura never understood back then.

The day her mom passed away, Maura found that old, yellow notebook. Page after page, there was just one word: "Escape."

By then, Maura could read a few words, and she finally understood what it meant.

She began to realize what her mom really meant—growing up in a place like that, escape was written into the bones of every woman, a sto