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No matter what actually happened the night of the fire, this family deserved more. Summer, who was a great friend and
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who loved her kids so much. Autumn, who had a zillion stuffed animals and called
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them all her babies. Ezra, who really liked to look at leaves in the park, and Emory, who was just a little bubbly baby
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boy. They all deserved more from the people who are supposed to protect and serve, their dad included. It breaks my
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heart that just as Summer was about to do the hardest thing imaginable to leave the man she claimed abused her, her
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house, her life, and her children's lives, their futures, all went up in smoke. We asked Maria, Summer's mom, if
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she had any final words that she wanted us to close out this episode with. And this is what she wrote to us. God saw
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everything, and God can read the heart. I believe I will see Summer and the kids
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again in the resurrection [music] and they will be alive and safe and healthy then. But in the meantime, I miss them
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[music] so much, too much. There are days when I cannot function, when I don't even leave my apartment. There are
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days when I just cry on and off through the day. It is said that time heals all wounds. That is not true. The more time
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that goes by, the more I miss