Chapter 222

• It had then begun a tough period of separation and divorce proceedings, a time marked by persecution and harassment, during which she truly began to know the monster she had been living with.
• The relentless pursuit he subjected her to, seeking her out in every space she was in or visited, forced her to change her environment and leave her sister behind in Utah. In California, she had found her place, in the big city of Los Angeles where getting lost was possible.
• Here she had started to build her small business, the one she had always dreamed of and that her mother had encouraged since she was little. With her grandmother's and mother's recipes in hand, she had no other fantasy than tranquility, financial independence, and the hope that, in a slightly more distant future, she could build a home.