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In_The_Wind

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2. The only way to overcome the feeling is to always remember that:
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 12:04 AM
Nov 2013
It truly was not your fault that you were the victim of sexual abuse and rape.

For me, the voices of my childhood never stopped blaming me until I moved out of my father's home when I was 17.
It is an ongoing job to remember that I was the injured party, the victim. I was a child who did nothing wrong.
Now, I try to love that child (me) who was never loved and protected enough to be safe from childhood sexual abuse.

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