CONFESSIONS OF A GIRL WHO OVERCAME SEXUAL ABUSE

When I was 16. I was sexually abused. It took me many years to even say those words: “I was sexually abused”. I felt those four little words could never capture the whole story. As if by saying those particular words I was joining a community of survivors far worthier of them, than I. As if by speaking them I could diminish someone else’s experience that was “worse” than mine.