Our Memories Of Rape May Be Buried, But They’re Never Gone
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11 min readNov 17, 2015
By July Westhale
Trauma is like an underwater tea party where you scream and hear nothing at all.
“Dread. I like it better than the word fear because fear, like the unconscious emotion which is one of its forms, has only the word ear inside of it, telling an animal to listen, while…