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Milli

Everything was peachy at first. Once he realized I couldn’t go home, that’s when things took a turn for the worse. Just like with whores and pimps, with prostitution. Make them believe you’re going to be there for them, you’re going to take care of them. And he made me feel like that at first.

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Milli was serving a two-year drug sentence at the Windham Prison when she joined Finding Our Voices. She was a natural leader at the book club I later moderated there with 10 women, all of whose prison sentences were linked to domestic abuse.