The Box

📍 Chapter 8 of Gina's story (Episode 14). New here? Start at Episode 1 → https://daddy-tissues.captivate.fm/episode/im-fcking-doing-this
It's Labor Day weekend. Fireworks going off outside. I'm alone in my house, and instead of being at the shore, I went down to the basement and dragged up a giant box with one word written on it in permanent marker: COURT. Some people have a cooler. I have litigation.
Inside: 300 entries between two court cases — custody and support — and sixteen years of stories behind the paperwork. I sat down to tell you what happened after my mother said "he's going to…