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We live in a time where it has become difficult to distinguish between the President’s words and that of a nineteen-year-old assailant.

I heard the familiar expectation that a victim be flawless, in order to be worthy of life.

He had given himself permission to enter me again, this time stuffing words into my mouth. He made me his real-life ventriloquist doll, put his hands inside me and made me speak.
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I’m shuddering at the imagery

When I’d said I was more of a mother to her than a sister … What happens when a person gets between a mother bear and her cub, have you read about the maulings, faces ripped clean.

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Wow, that resonates with me

Trauma provides a special way of moving through time; years fall away in an instant, we can summon terrorizing feelings as if they are happening in the present
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Something to remember when speaking about traumatic events.

Their [the boys’] behavior was the constant, while we were the variable expected to change. When did it become our job to do all the preventing and managing?

PAGE 49 and 50!!!! HOT DAMN!

In this crime, pain could be disguised and confused as pleasure. There’s no such thing as a good or bad stabbing, a consensual or nonconsensual murder.

Why didn’t you fight him? If you woke up to a robber in your home, saw him taking your stuff, people wouldn’t ask, why didn’t you tell him no?

The most important thing to remember was that to be at the rear, to be slower, did not mean you were not a leader.

I am already impressed with just the power of the introduction. And the weight of her words.

“A time like that comes for every man, when he chooses what sort of man he wants to be. And if you don’t know the story, you don’t know the man.”