Hey listeners, you may notice that my voice sounds a little different today.

That's because all of us at Slate, probably like you, are working remotely during this pandemic.

And so I'm using a different microphone and I am recording this from inside the closet of my home.

And we really appreciate all of you sticking with us during this time.

And we hope to return the favor by being able to deliver an episode to you every week

that makes surviving this a little bit easier.

And if you have any questions about how

to get through this period,

we will do our best to find some answers.

Just drop us a note at how to at slate.com. And in the meantime, please

stay safe and healthy and away from crowds and keep listening.

To this day, I don't have pictures of her in the house. I can't, I can't look at it.

You know, in my professional life, I've taken care of children who ended up being murdered by

their parents, and I've seen horrific abuse.

I don't think I can forgive her.

I don't think that she deserves forgiveness.

This is how to, I'm Charles Duick.

Each week we talk to a listener who's struggling with something in their life and wants to know how to make it better.

Yeah, it's kind of unnerving to have kept the secret for so long and then to tell it in such a public way.

This is Claire.

She's a retired pediatric physician living in New Mexico.

Claire's not her real name because as you can hear,

...