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At first, the nurse uses the fentanyl at work. She takes vials from storage and injects

in the bathroom. Then she starts taking the vials home. A 30-minute drive to a Connecticut

town in a more rural part of the state. This is where

she's raising her children, three of them. It's a wealthy town, but not hedge fund wealth. Kids go to

public school and play Little League. For a while, the nurse taught catechism at the church.

The nurse is divorced from her children's father,

who, according to court documents,

is a volatile presence in their lives.

The tooth fairy will be coming a lot

because I'm going to knock your teeth out,

and maybe the ambulance will have to come,

because your jaw bones will break. As an example of the kind of thing the nurse claims the father

has said. According to a police report, the father denies making this in all such threatening

statements. But the children have said they are scared of him. The nurse is scared when they are

with him. The nurse sees scared when they are with him.

The nurse sees herself as the stable parent.

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