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rainin

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12. My list as a female
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 01:36 PM
Nov 2017

6th grade - called over to a car in the drop off lane - a man asking if I had seen a student. He said the child's name so quietly, I went closer to the car to try to hear the name. There I saw he was masturbating.

10th grade - father of a classmate waited outside my high school one day to "walk me home". Classmate was going home with her mom. Raised to be polite, I said nothing and he walked me home.

11th grade - went horseback riding with friend of my step mom's. He was old as dirt. Once we were away from the others, he rode up alongside me and tried to pull me into a kiss. When I reacted by pulling away, he asked me if I was going to "kiss and tell?"

12th grade - three men showed me their privates in a public place - uninvited - In each instance, I was with my mom, dad, and sister, except that we were not together at the moment. Each time, they pulled it out, I ran away. (Garden of Gethsemane, Israel. Near the aguaducts in Caesarea, Israel. Madurodam, Amsterdam.)

19 years old - inappropriately physically touched by a dentist who was late 50's, 60's I would guess. Put his hands all over my body to "position" me in the chair. Asked personal questions about my love life.

19 years old - a man in a car pulled up next to me when I was cycling alone near my house. He was masterbating. He called over to me and motioned for me to look.

I have been groped more times than I can count. I worked for a short time as a waitress in a bar. Men would grab my rearend or put their hands on my belly (my uniform top was cropped). It never occurred to me that I could expect to not be grabbed and touched.



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