--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote: <snip> > I comfort my mother and pray for my brother. Violence > against women isn't so far away. It's in our homes, quietly > hidden in families too afraid or ashamed to tell anyone > about it. I'm talking and it's damn painful. I don't have > the any answers for my niece, but I do have a responsibility > to speak on her behalf and tell her story, here and now just > to see if I'm alone in the echo chamber or resonating with > someone out there I don't know.
Raunchy, your niece's story makes my heart hurt. I hope she'll be getting psycholgical counseling as well as medical treatment to help her get past this awful trauma and get on with her life.
