She keeps their pictures in a floral-covered album too pretty for the stories inside. The pictures startle because the children look so normal. Here are three girls dressed neatly for school pictures. The father molested the two older ones. Here are five children laughing on a front porch.
Mom is an alcoholic.
There are four different fathers. This girl was raped by Mom's boyfriend. The twins were beaten up by their father. And here is a giggling toddler in a fire chief's hat. Mom is a crack addict.