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Why honest testimony can feel like personal betrayal

I testified truthfully in my friend's custody battle and cost her visitation rights, but her addiction made her dangerous to the children.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Legal truth-telling can require abandoning personal loyalty in service of abstract justice.

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