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“Your mother has been face to face with the devil.”

God, even in childbirth we have to advocate for our own fucking bodies and health

“But other people’s pain didn’t diminish mine.”

They’re in Tulum. I loved the ocean there

This runs the full spectrum of emotions during the aftermath of a sexual assault—the trauma stages

“I felt like I was in a movie, the victim who exists merely to raise the suspense so that the hero can hunt for clues that will eventually reward the victim…”

This is a translation issue but the word, “dilaceration” is used a few times which comes up as a spelling error when I type it and when you Google it, comes up as a dental term

This is so, so real.

We hugged one another and cried, as if I could pass a little of my dilacerated body to her and she could give me a little of her intact body

A mother decides to write a letter to her children—giving an account of a tragedy that happened to her…