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SURVIVORS STORIES

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I am a survivor of incest as a child and rape as an adult. For years I blocked out what had happened to me but of course something knocked that wall down. I don't know when the incest began, I may have been only two or three, I'm not sure. It didn't end until I was around ten or eleven and I finally told those men to leave me alone. I did say men. One was my Mother's brother and the other was my Mother's best friends husband. The pain and degradation I felt were horrible and it had taken me years to get over it. Actually, I don't think one really ever gets over it but rather learns to live with it and accept that it happened therefore getting stronger because of it. All I really do know is that I now can look back and say without hesitation that it wasn't my fault, it was theirs. I am the victim and they they perpetrator. I am a survivor and so are all who go through that hell and go on. To any who have lived through this, keep your head up and love that child who was abused because that child is special and so are you. Love yourself for that specialness and don't let anyone put you down. Love does heal.