Because of poverty, my parents sold me to a rich man, but what happened on our wedding night sh0cked everyone…
In 1966, in the small, quiet farming town of Harmony Creek, Tennessee, lived Matilda Hayes, a 20-year-old girl who had never once stepped outside the strict boundaries drawn by her father. Walter Hayes was a hard, proud farm laborer who thought a daughter’s value was determined by how quietly she obeyed and how unmarked she…
