“It was something my mom said: ‘You bragged about your virginity.’ I don’t think that’s true. I know a lot of people assumed that I wasn’t a virgin because I dated someone much older than me in high school and because I had a certain type of body. So a lot of people suggested I was sexually evolved and I would have to defend myself—‘I really am a virgin.’ I even bought a shirt from the Virgin record store that said ‘Virgin’ on it during a mission trip. I thought it was kind of funny. It was one of those things my mom threw in my face after the rape.” “Because you were too prideful about your
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