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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dedicated to all battered women</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">By Paulette Kelly</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I got flowers today!</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">It wasn’t my birthday or any other special day.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We had our first argument last night. And he said a lot of cruel things that really hurt.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I know that he is sorry and didn’t mean to say the things he said</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Because he sent me flowers today.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I got flowers today!</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">It wasn’t our anniversary or any other special day.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Last night he threw me into a wall and then started choking me.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">It seemed like a nightmare, but you wake up from nightmares to find they aren’t real.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I got flowers today!</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">It wasn’t Valentine’s Day or any other special day.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Make up and long sleeves didn’t hide the cuts and bruises this time.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I couldn’t go to work because I didn’t want anyone to know - but I know he’s sorry</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Because he sent me flowers today.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I got flowers today!</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">And it wasn’t Mother’s Day or any other special day.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Last night he beat me again, and it was much worse than all the other times.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">If I leave him now, what will I do? How will I take care of the kids? What about money?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I’m afraid of him, but I’m too scared and dependent to leave him. But he must be sorry</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Because he sent me flowers today.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I got flowers today...</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Today was a very special day - It was the day of my funeral.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Last night he finally killed me - I was beaten to death.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">If only I would have gathered the courage and strength to leave him.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The women’s shelter could have helped me, but I didn’t ask for their help.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">So I got flowers today...for the last time.</span></p>
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