This story references child rape, abortion, and descriptions of miscarriages. Resources related to sexual assault can be found at Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network, www.rainn.org.Before she knew what a miscarriage was, Hadley Duvall experienced one.
She was 12.Sitting on the toilet in her childhood home in Owensboro, Kentucky, and racked with a level of pain she had never felt before, Hadley watched the blood, so much blood, pour out of her body and knew it was bad.
She wondered if this would be it. Maybe, she thought, she’d bleed out. She’d die right here and then she’d be free of this whole mess.
That could be the best-case scenario.Down the hall her mother slept soundly. Hadley wanted to scream to her, to cry for her.