The Person Everyone Believes You Are By Kylie Wright
“It won’t matter in five years.” “That’s just what guys do.” “I know him; he wouldn’t do that.” As I sit at my desk, I am forced to repeat all these things that I have been told. While you get to live your life just as before. I watch as our coaches and classmates praise you, and defend you as I sit in pain, my mind unable to shut up. I replay the things you said, the things you did, over and over and over. Because I don’t get to just forget and move on. That is a gift only given to the abuser.
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