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You Were Supposed to Be Safe in That Room It was the last night before a flight out of Denver. You and your mother — together in one room at the Longmont Econo Lodge because the trip was already long and the room was supposed to be a safe place to land. Then he showed up. Pizza as a goodbye. You let him in because you knew him. He started acting erratically, and you kicked him out of the room. The right call. You thought you were safe. You weren’t. He walked to the front desk, told the husband-and-wife team working it that he was drunk and had taken “a crap ton of Xanax,” wrote a profanity-laced breakup letter in front of them, and somehow talked them into handing him a key to your room. No ID. No check. No one called you to ask if it was okay. He walked back to the room with the key the hotel gave him. He said, “I’m going to fing kill you, c.” And then he cut your throat. He kicked you on the floor. He knocked out your teeth. He told you he liked the smell of your blood. He told…