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CatherineTodd
11/22/2009 7:57 PM UTC
No one deserves "a rebuke" for TELLING THE TRUTH.
11/22/2009 7:56 PM UTC
Even though some of my sisters believed I was telling the truth, they still attacked me relentlessly. That hurt the worst.
11/22/2009 7:55 PM UTC
Thank you so much for your heartfelt words. My family has been bent on destroying me ever since I "told" and made the incest known in an effort to protect my niece who was going to stay with my parents. For over 20 years the assaults have never stopped. I too had hoped for healing that will never come. Silence is the only rule in my alcoholic incestuous uncaring family. It's heartbreaking but there seems to be nothing I can do about it but pray. Please, keep writing. You are keeping our stories, and us, alive!
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New time is 10:30 AM Monday morning. Speaking out about sexual assault, I will rely on a combination of personal experience, news items, and information from organizations focused on sexual assault. At the end of this hour there will be 30 new victims added to the statistics. One day: 1440 One Week: 10,080 But we are not merely a statistic. We are lives twisted, and often terminated. A Yahoo News Link pertaining to sexual assault is in my links list. Watch for new developments. This is a topic close to my heart. National Sexual Assault Hotline 1.800.656.HOPE An Online Hotline Link may be found at www.rainn.org
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In the meantime, here is the post I would have posted, would have talked about and couldn't stay on line long enough to post even.
My powerful pc should be ready this week. I got everything but my eyes crossed.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find how you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela I vowed to me before entering New York State in June 2006 that I would not knuckle under to family pressure, or the intimidation that was sure to come. I underestimated the meanness of the family of my birth. Perhaps I overestimated my own strength. Before I set off for the land of my childhood I joked to my children that I would be the one with binoculars up on the cliffs at Letchworth State Park checking out the DeGolier Family Reunion to see if it was safe to proceed. I ought to have taken me serious. It is three and a half years later, and I did not knuckle under, nor did I run. I bent and twisted like a funnel cake at the fair, as did two of my sisters who stood by me, but I did not break. In total I have four sisters now, four more than I had before 2006. But back to changing me. A portrait has been painted, more like a police sketch, and handed out, tacked up, and an all-points bulletin broadcast. She must be devalued, discredited, patronized, medicated, re-educated, disabled, silenced, sent back where "she belongs." One thing is sure. Had I the character, personality, selfishness, and viciousness of the labels attached to their rendition of me, I would hardly seek to change myself. It would still be everybody else who needs to change. Point made. They label me with their own cr and expect me to fix it. But it is all about changing me. The family will have to deal with their own stuff, or not. I do not care anymore.
Date / Time: 10/12/2009 1:07 PM UTC
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