my story—begins with—denial–that sexualabuse took place at 8–my family never would have believed that an uncle molested me he was 33–and a very nice man–that was 1961–one occurrence took place–then in 1981–he threatened mewith humiliation into silence–it worked now in 1994–when an argument takes place with a doctor who raped me at 17 and i am now 41—he turns his writing of ‘crazy’ against me–trying to put me away for good–silenced me more–he hand raped me at 17—and i told him to stop he did not —i was a virgin—so my life to think of sex with pain–made an impact of a terrible–twosome- now i am 50+—in 1997–i write my first poem–into voices in action—remember a friend–i see it it makes me feel  good about myself–to see my writing in print I write another–then another– i have as many as 8 articles now published true  experiences of sexual abuse for the world to see that i am ‘one of them’—i am not the only one in  a small town –there are millions of others i now see my picture on let go let peace come in—my first thinking i will allow my picture to be seen–i feel almost good about my self

i hope others will see that writing about their sexual abuse will help others

It did for me