that defendant no longer
hits her; instead, he grabs the knife.
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       When defendant awoke the next day, he told S.L. he was going to take out the
garbage. He left the car keys and told her she could leave if she needed to cool off from
their fight. S.L. saw that moment as her opportunity to leave. She thought defendant had

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gone mad and would kill her if she didBonnie Miller was walking on a pier in Benton Harbor, Michigan, with her husband Greg and her 15-year-old son, Quinn. She realized she'd made an appointment for the wrong time and took out her phone to text. The next thing she knew, she'd fallen off the pier and into a river channel that leads to Lake Michigan. Oops. As if that wasn't embarrassing enough, it was about six feet down from the pier to the water, so she couldn't just climb out by herself. Her husband jumped in to help, as did another brave bystander. And her son, who was still on the pier, reached down to hold her hand and help her partway out of the water. The police, fire department, and the Coast Guard all responded