“If she were being abused, why didn’t she have the sense to not put herself back in that situation?” I rubbed my thumb over the paperback cover, hearing it skid across the gloss. My chin trembled, my eyes stinging a little. “I mean, why would she do that?” Will asked. “That’s what I’m saying,” another student chimed in. Words hung on the tip of my tongue, telling them that they were oversimplifying. That it was easier to judge a girl you knew nothing about than to allow someone the dignity of their process. That it was more convenient to not consider that there were things we didn’t know and
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