Over two unbearable days, three children listened as their father beat their mother while she begged for her life. And before her kids were ordered to clean up the blood-soaked home, the mom whispered her final words to her teenage daughter, who held her close as she died.
When Aleisha Brown was 8 years old, her mother, Shawntae, loaded her, her 7-year-old brother, and their newborn baby sister into the car for a road trip from Oklahoma City to Texas.
During the trip, the high school sweethearts surprised their kids by announcing were getting married.
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