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Tell your story. Tell it to anyone you are comfortable with. Shame does when stories are told in safe places.
Message of Healing
Healing is finally facing you and getting justice. Healing is finally sharing my story without shame.
I was 19, out for a run. You approached me to ask for a band aid. I’m nice, I stopped to say no and tell you how to get to the closest restroom. I started to run away and you held a knife to my throat and pulled me into a wooded area. I had recently read in 17 magazine that if you’re ever attacked to make yourself as human as possible. ‘My friend Lisa is waiting for me’ I said. You told me to shut up and then told me to undress. You raped me. You were my ‘first’ - I had been waiting for the right person - you took that from me. You ran off and were never found… until April of this year. You came back into my life after 20+ years and ripped it apart again. But this time, I get to tell my story to a jury of your peers. I now get my turn to exert power over you. I get to watch you be sentenced and be sent to prison; hopefully for the rest of your life, because I wasn’t your only victim, you have many.
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