Beth is falsely accused of shoplifting and seeks to clear her name. This happened in part to Joan when she was 19 and she wrote this fictional account of what it was like to not be believed.
Read it in FROM ONE EXPERIENCE TO ANOTHER: Award-winning authors sharing real-life experiences through fiction. Edited by Dr. M. Jerry Weiss and Helen S. Weiss. A Forge Book/ Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.