She Called The Police Over A Uniform—And Regretted It

woman who’d avoided us for weeks—stood up, eyes wet. “I’m sorry. I let Karen scare me into thinking… I don’t even know what I thought. I’m sorry.”

Others followed. Apologies came clumsy and sincere. Some brief. Some long. Some people didn’t speak at all but looked like they wanted to.

Karen tried to approach Sophia as the meeting ended. Sophia didn’t continue reading …