If We Only Had Time {#MyHandmaidsTale}

What have I become/ My sweetest friend?/ Everyone I know/ Goes away, in the end
-"Hurt", cover by Johnny Cash
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I always told you, "you can't protect everyone." And you know what your reply was, every damn time?
"I have to try."
And you did try. Harder than anyone else. That's what got you here.
(My interpretation of the oppression women in the armed forces face every day, very loosely based off of a family member's experience)