Brave Post from Humans of New York (HoNY from FB) *pic included*
"It happened back in graduate school. For years, I was constantly questioning whether I'd done something to deserve it. I knew I was drunk, but I chose to walk home at night. I noticed he was following me. I noticed that he followed me into a coffee shop, and I could have stayed in that shop, but I chose to continue home. He pulled me into a car at knifepoint. I didn't tell anyone. Not even the police. I was an actress, so I just sort of thought I could act like it never happened. It was hard for me to continue performing, because when you're raped, you feel like you've been seen in a way that you shouldn't be seen, and the last thing you want to do is be seen anymore. You gain weight. You wear baggy clothes. It took me years of being in a rape support group to even get to the place where I can talk about it. But I'm in a great place now. I just finished self-producing a cabaret show. Not a sparkly one. It's a little dark. Well, dark and sparkly."
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Thanks for posting the link, niyad.
