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"Sometimes a shadow wins," she sang, describing my lowest feelings perfectly. But then, she helped me rally: "Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you live / Maybe one of these days you can let the light in / Show me how big your brave is."

“We knew too well what some daughters were forced to
endure. I was reaching out to the first man who had preyed on me. I now know that it is common for survivors for abuse to try to “fix” their pasts by continuing to engage with their abusers. But I didn't
know that then.”

“He'd succeeded in convincing me that he was helping me — protecting me from a mediocre life that I didn't deserve.

“Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It’s the lowest you can go. If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would be nothing - even though it’s just a very little or something.”