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renate

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22. I am so sorry about all of this

Reply to angstlessk (Reply #16)

Mon Dec 3, 2012, 01:38 AM

Dec 2012

You were so young and you should have been able to rely completely on the adults in your life, but you were let down. Your rapists (and I have to admit, I missed the plural the first time I read this... oh, how horrible...) lied in court in front of you. And suddenly to have it all brought back, not just in your mind but in real life, when you were 19... it's all just awful. I am so sorry.

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Rape Changes Lives, and Often Devastatingly. [View all] MineralMan Dec 2012 OP

Did she have any counseling afterward to try to help her work through her RKP5637 Dec 2012 #1

Yes. She had been in counseling since the time of the rape. MineralMan Dec 2012 #2

I really never realized there were so many people with the same name until I've RKP5637 Dec 2012 #5

Yup. I have a common name, too. MineralMan Dec 2012 #7

If you really wanted to find her ... GeorgeGist Dec 2012 #15

Could someone PM me when DU Rape Week is over? leftstreet Dec 2012 #3

They're easy enough to skip, if you read the titles. MineralMan Dec 2012 #4

The apologists and freaks aren't skipping them leftstreet Dec 2012 #6

I can post them anyhow. Why should such things be hidden away MineralMan Dec 2012 #9

Your ladyfriend might disagree leftstreet Dec 2012 #12

What happened is not in any way attached to anyone's name. MineralMan Dec 2012 #13

It is a common story etherealtruth Dec 2012 #14

They shouldn't be hidden away. Some people just need to grow the f--- up. Iris Dec 2012 #18

+1 Squinch Dec 2012 #19

I was NOT going to post in this thread, however! Some of us who have survived rape(s) are reading. Melinda Dec 2012 #11

How about someone PM-ing you when rape mzmolly Dec 2012 #21

Thank you so much MM for your thoughtful post. smirkymonkey Dec 2012 #8

I'm sure it's a story that could be told by very many people. MineralMan Dec 2012 #10

I was raped when I was 11 years old...my mother told me to 'wash that filth off your body' angstlessk Dec 2012 #16

I am so sorry about all of this renate Dec 2012 #22

K&R Odin2005 Dec 2012 #17

Even attempted rape can do that. flvegan Dec 2012 #20

Sexual assault of any kind is devastating. Does not have to be rape. Manifestor_of_Light Dec 2012 #23