[about Gabrielle's mother] I think your hatred for her is clouding your judgment.
Maybe, but you don't know her like I do.
Okay. You ran away from home fifteen years ago. Did you ever think to talk to her about the stuff that happened between you and your step-dad?
It wouldn't have done any good.
How do you know that?
Because she knew exactly what was going on with Alejandro and she chose to look the other way.
But you never even gave her a chance to step up. You just ran away from home.
[in tears] Because if I did, then she, we, there was a chance she wouldn't have believed me, and, and that would've hurt a lot worse than anything he ever did to me.
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