Episode 8, The Fallout.

It was late summer 2018.

It had been just weeks since Paulina left the train station with her two daughters, and

some of the biggest, most defining moments in her life had all happened in rapid succession.

She took the kids.

She gave the kids back.

She lost the kids.

She filed for custody.

She got them back.

I got out of the culture, and everything really hit me.

Paulina was taking Bobby and his family to court.

She was spending more and more time with outsiders, and she was living with her mom, who was trying

to encourage her to get back on a traditional Romani path.

Because as I was living with my mom, she would continuously be like, well, you can't be

like in the Goddred, like you can't be like with the outsiders, and I see like that's

what you're heading into that what you're doing.

Paulina said her mom encouraged her to mend back the life she had just torn to pieces.

Because you know, like my mom knew that I was like not wanting to be with like gypsy

guys or anything, and at the same time she was already thinking like, oh, well, maybe

you can get married to this person, or maybe you can just get your husband back.

Like all of this stuff, and I was like, uh, like just leave me alone.

Paulina's ties to the rest of her community were unraveling.

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