Why won't the past stay in the past?

[Boxlicker101]

(((((((ABS))))))))
(((((((JUST))))))
((((((((VELLA)))))
(*(*(*(*(EVERYONE*)*)*)*)

I just figured out I am suffering one more of the major side affects of the new meds...
Please forgive me jumping up and shouting all my personal burdens like tens tons of bullshit on everyones shoulders.

You all just rock... and ya dont deserve more weight where none is needed.

Christa, nobody, but nobody, is going to object to your dumping all you want on us. That's one of the reasons for the forum, besides arguing politics and showing pictures of grandchildren and - oh yes - discussing writing.

 

[slyc_willie]

Thought I'd weigh in on this.

I read through the entire thread. My heart goes out to you, Just, and Vella, and Christa, and . . . .

I can count on one hand the number of women I've met who have not suffered some kind of tragedy like this, be it incestual or other rape. It almost seems . . . expected, and very sadly so. I've listened in on conversations between female friends of mine with whom I work. Every great once in a while, one will mention being raped by an uncle or older brother when they were thirteen or so. Then someone else will chime in with a date rape story.

I'm glad it didn't happen to you physically, Just, but I know how you feel when you say it seemed like this man had done something to you.

When I was thirteen, I answered the phone at home one night. Turned out to be a wrong number. The woman on the other end, though, called back a few minutes later. Told me I had a 'sexy' voice. She started asking questions about me, and once she learned that I was in ninth grade . . . it seemed she became even more interested.

We had three phone conversations before she suggested we 'meet for ice cream.'

I'm glad, now, that I didn't go.

I felt much the same way you did. Like I had been infected with something virule and disgusting, though I didn't quite understand it then. I never told my family about it. It became a footnote in my personal history.

Regardless of what you think may or may not happen if you told anyone, at least the man is not longer a threat. Still, revealing what you know of him may . . . just may . . . lead to further investigation and perhaps an uncovering of the other girls this man preyed upon. And that could begin a healing process for them.

 

[christabelll]

This is why - so we can become something like these

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x94/christabelll/yerallrocks.jpg
"That which does not destroy, seeks to make you stronger"


badly quoted - Arthur Conan Doyle