“Please say something, Bonnie” she heard her mother plead. “Are you alright? Are you hurt?”

“I’m very fine” Bonnie replied. “I left mom. I wasn’t kidnapped.”

They were not listening. “Thank God” said Robert, “We can’t wait for you to come home”

“That’s why I’m calling right now, dad” Bonnie began quickly, scared that they would talk her out of it…just like they talked her into almost everything her entire life. “I wanted to tell you myself that I won’t be coming home…at least not now. All my life I’ve done everything you have asked me to do, but now I think I want to make this one decision for...