Lollie confided that she had been repeatedly sexually assaulted and had barely begun to unpack the trauma it had caused, so any kind of sexual intimacy was a struggle. She suffered from endometriosis, which left her anemic and just wanting to stay in bed. That made keeping a job hard, too: she’d last just a few days cleaning hotel rooms at a resort on Lake Champlain, a few weeks pulling weeds on an organic farm, before she was too depleted to continue.
