1) not for 20 years, now, but I do visit my mother. It makes her happy. Usually.

Ha!

Pauley Perrette looks like a 60-year-old version of that pigtail “goth” chick from that crime lab show my mom watches, which makes the whole, “I rebuke thee, Satan...” thing much funnier to me.

And I do want to signal boost a point from the comments that I should have been really specific that being charged with acquaintance sexual assault at college is rare without mountains of evidence, but this is absolutely not true of all crimes and especially not true for people of color.

Ah, I stand corrected. I intended to imply “with acquaintance sexual assault” but now realize thanks to you that it IS necessary to specify. And it’s too late to correct.