“I am a victim. That’s true.” I know it, and yet I’m squirming. Resisting the label like I don’t deserve it. If you hurt someone really badly, can you be a victim too? “Yes, but you’re also a survivor. Your trust was broken by your own mother, a woman whose sole job was to protect you from this world. But she didn’t, did she? Now you find yourself wondering what other people are hiding, what other people are capable of because of that hurt. Isn’t that right, Lenora?” “Yes.” “But that’s one person. Not everyone is like her.”

