There's a crayon drawing on my refrigerator. A stick figure with brown hair holding hands with a smaller stick figure with yellow pigtails. Underneath, in wobbly kindergarten letters: "Me and Mommy at the park."
My daughter drew it three weeks after I got her back. After eighteen months of supervised visits in a room that smelled like industrial cleaner, with a social worker writing notes in the corner while I tried to read picture books like a normal mother. Eighteen months of being watched for signs that I was still the person the court file said I was.
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