Indelible in the hippocampus

[handmade34]

2. Oh,

being 15, going to the local isolated swimming hole with others... going off down the trail by myself(don't remember why, maybe to pee, maybe because I am such an introvert, just to be by myself for a bit), discovering an older boy had followed me, got me to the ground, got my shirt off, fighting back, fighting back,... finally he quit but would not give my shirt back, I had to go back to the swimming hole w/o a top and find a ride to get out of there... it was humiliating and terrifying and no one seemed to care...

I had no one to tell, my mother was emotionally absent, my father was physically absent... I just told my partner last week as all this unfolded...
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other stories I could tell, stories others can tell... I have been crying off and on betweens rants these past few weeks...