Lexus Orozco’s Reviews > Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice > Status Update

“Serenity did something I wished it wouldn’t. It was as if my feeling safe cleared a path for some of the most awful memories [. . .]. When you’re fighting for survival, you don’t process trauma; you bury it. Well, now that I was surrounded by love, all that ugliness had decided it had been buried long enough” (183).