This is the Fall Line.

True Crime fans love a good case study.

It is so easy to spot the flaws and mistakes from the outside and to guess what led to a terrible conclusion.

But what about when you're living it?

Let's say you're a single mother.

You've just moved to a new apartment that's nowhere near a grocery store.

It takes two buses to get to one and two buses to get back.

Let's say you have five dollars to your name and you need money to help your children get to their out of district school

and to feed them and their siblings who are hungry for lunch.

Your older daughters can borrow money for the bus.

But how do you get them from point A to point B to retrieve it?

Your little ones can't walk for miles.

There's not a lot of choice here.

And you let the teenagers go alone.

Each generation parents radically differently from the last and the decisions made 20 years ago seem impossible today.

In 1990, childhood was essentially different.

In cities, in the country, in suburbs, we walked.

We were latch key children who microwaved our own dinners.

We were left alone in cars to color or read while our parents ran into the store.

We played outside for hours and our mothers simply expected we'd come home.

And we did.

But what if we hadn't?

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