Regretting The Wife He Threw Away

Gallagher fell silent again.

The director asked, "Do you hate your ex-wife?"

Gallagher replied, "Yes. I do."

"Why do you hate her?"

"I hate that she divorced me. I hate that she took my son away."

The director's tone turned clinical: "When you hit your ex-wife, had you been drinking?"

Gallagher shook his head. "No."

"You weren't divorced yet. So why did you hit her?"

A twisted grin spread across Gallagher's face as he looked up at the director. The camera caught the moment-his smile cold and warped. "In my family, if a wife doesn't listen, she gets punished."

The director paused for several seconds, then asked quietly, "Did your father hit your mother too?"

Gallagher shrugged. "All the time. Right up until two years ago, when my dad died of liver cancer. My mom never even mentioned divorce. I only hit her a few times, so why did she get to leave me?"

For a moment, the director's professionalism cracked. He muttered a curse under his breath, though the editors later cut it from the final film.

The last scene of the documentary was Karen and her mother taking her son to a follow-up appointment at the hospital. The little boy was recovering physically, but the trauma of being abused by his own father lingered in his young heart.

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handbag, the three generations walking

rolled, a gentle

low, bright stars following close

documentary ended, fading out to the

her mother took the boy and left Northborough. On Briony's advice and with her help, they settled in a quiet old town. Briony handed Karen a generous fee-enough to open a small shop and start

her dream of being an

was ultimately titled

on various social media platforms. It was a risky move, but since the project had been made on a shoestring budget,

at eight, Because She's Mom was released online as

and the show became a sensation, sparking heated

brought more than

and more women's support groups found the courage to speak out and ask

their voices to the cause. The spark lit

buzz and soaring profits—the numbers kept climbing. No one had imagined

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such extraordinary success. Starlight's stock price soared for

a struggling, third-rate company on the verge of a buyout to the top three in the national media rankings in just one

of online trolls accused Starlight of exploiting women's suffering

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rational and kind. Yes, Starlight reaped immense rewards from the success of Because She's Mom, but without it, the Women's Coalition groups would never have received such