I don’t know how to talk about rape and sexual violence when it comes to my own story. It is easier to say, “Something terrible happened.” Something terrible happened. That something terrible broke me. I wish I could leave it at that, but this is a memoir of my body so I need to tell you what happened to my body. I was young and I took my body for granted and then I learned about the terrible things that could happen to a girl body and everything changed. Something terrible happened, and I wish I could leave it at that because as a writer who is also a woman, I don’t want to be defined by the
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