AG...you got me hook, line and sinker. I thought this was a true story until I read that you drew the pictures and saw your fiction tag. The drawings are incredible and I think they helped make the story real for me. And when I read this:

the priest to account who had told her marriage vows tied her to that husband forever, no matter the circumstances.

I got chills and said, "OMG!" This is what I was told and some other choice words from a priest. Needless to say that I never went back to my church and finally got a divorce.

And that last picture of happier times with the axe, spoke volumes to me. I have to shake off all of my feelings I have for Maricia and I have to keep telling myself that this is not true, this is not true. Great job AG!