When Jamilet Almaras took the stand in a Dallas County criminal court Thursday morning, she willed herself not to cry.
She’d spent the night before typing out everything she wanted to say to the woman who’d abused her during Almaras’ teen years — 800 words to express a decade of grief, anger and a journey to forgiveness.
“I’m nervous,” she’d whispered moments before the judge called her forward to deliver her statement…