My Mother-in-Law Locked Me Inside While I Was 38 Weeks Pregnant — Then Returned From a Luxury Trip Paid With My Money

later thought of as a kind of company — constant, reliable, present. She remembers the sound of the paramedics entering — they broke the lock on the side door, the one off the kitchen — and the sound of voices doing what voices do when they are trained to be calm. She remembers being lifted.