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This time, Lindsay McAndrew was running away for good. After a decade of suffering domestic violence, the COVID-19 pandemic made her realize she needed a clean break.
McAndrew, 35, grabbed birth certificates, Social Security cards and $1,700 cash from her children s piggy banks. She packed the minivan with the three kids and family dog, Charlie. As she pulled out of the driveway in Orlando, Florida, in September, she headed to the only safe haven she knew: her mother s house in New Jersey. I felt like I was screaming, but nobody could hear me, McAndrew said.
Now, months after McAndrew s divorce was filed, the newly single mom is facing other challenges as the family s sole breadwinner: a vicious custody battle that required her to move back to Florida under court orders and find child care so she can work to pay rent and other bills.
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