He was sexually abused as a child, by both of his biological parents. His childhood trauma is extremely disturbing. It definitely helped me grow my bearings as a researcher only a few years out of John’s Hopkins, because damn… Just reading about his past has the potential to stir up a lot of unpleasant emotions. When he was eleven, Trevel ran away from his home in the UK and became a transient, eventually making his way to the States, where he began a five-year career as an underage sex worker. When he was sixteen, in New York, Trevel was raped by a group of men. Once he recovered from the
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oh my poor baby
