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It’s a hard pill to swallow
When a story is technically your own,
But the narrative
Doesn’t belong to you.

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24 years would go by before I ever told anyone about that night.

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I’m so incredibly sorry this happened to you. You need to know that it’s okay to be mad. To be sad. To be devastated. To cry. To scream. To go silent.

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You don’t have to justify to anyone the reasons you didn’t leave right away.

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Feel whatever feelings you need to because you have earned at least that. Feel what comes to you in the moment and promise me that when you are done, you will say/write/sing/scream, “It was not my fault.”

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Sometimes it starts with yelling and a person turning livid in a matter of seconds over something very small.