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Published: Jan 26, 2017

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v i o l a t e d

called you a survivor like
you had a choice
as to whether
you'd keep living
with it

no, i can't write it out
if i put words to it
it might become real

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PennedinWhite

Mar 5, 2017

This made me want to cry, and reading it hurt my heart in ways it hasn't in years. Wonderfully written, but so hard to read.
I had hoped it didn't mean what I thought it did, but I knew it did.

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