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PERSPECTIVE: “Reclaiming my voice has been a liberating experience”

lost my virginity to a paedophile. There was a film he made me watch, . I can still hear the line: “Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.” He would sit me in his lap like I was his little girl. That’s what he wanted me to be: a child “Why didn’t you just say no?” I’m asked, born of the belief that if you appeal to an abuser with reason, they’ll respect your.

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