In the memoir, and in an Elle magazine excerpt from the book, I went public with the truth about the math teacher who molested me in high school. As a result, my school launched an investigation into the rampant sexual abuse that was happening there in the late 1970s and early ’80s. I admitted to myself in the course of this process that I had been a victim. And as the truth came out, and everyone who wanted to talk about it on the record had a chance to, thirty-five years later, I resolved the trauma of those years.
