This Time Neither of Us Wanted Our Daughter
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Elliot Knox and I were in court fighting over custody of our daughter.
In my first life, when the judge asked who she wanted to live with, I heard her thoughts.
Mom looks so sad. Cordelia wants to stay with Mom...
My eyes welled up right there. I signed away half of everything we owned and walked away with nothing else, just to keep her with me.
Three months after I got custody, my sweet, obedient daughter handed the FBI a forged tax fraud document herself.
I spent years in prison with everyone in there gunning for me, and I died coughing up blood on a snowy winter night.
In my second life, I wasn't about to risk it again. I gave custody to Elliot instead.
A few years later, he ended up in the hospital, gravely ill. By the time I got there, he was barely hanging on. He told me:
"It was Cordelia... she's been poisoning my medication..."
I opened my eyes again and found myself back in that courtroom.
That same childish voice went off in my head right on cue, word for word identical to the last two times.
But this time, I looked up and saw Elliot across from me, clearly reborn too, his face full of the same shock and confusion.
So which one of us does she actually want?
In my first life, when the judge asked who she wanted to live with, I heard her thoughts.
Mom looks so sad. Cordelia wants to stay with Mom...
My eyes welled up right there. I signed away half of everything we owned and walked away with nothing else, just to keep her with me.
Three months after I got custody, my sweet, obedient daughter handed the FBI a forged tax fraud document herself.
I spent years in prison with everyone in there gunning for me, and I died coughing up blood on a snowy winter night.
In my second life, I wasn't about to risk it again. I gave custody to Elliot instead.
A few years later, he ended up in the hospital, gravely ill. By the time I got there, he was barely hanging on. He told me:
"It was Cordelia... she's been poisoning my medication..."
I opened my eyes again and found myself back in that courtroom.
That same childish voice went off in my head right on cue, word for word identical to the last two times.
But this time, I looked up and saw Elliot across from me, clearly reborn too, his face full of the same shock and confusion.
So which one of us does she actually want?

















































