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“So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by kissing it and putting a Band-Aid on it, but not so with the pain of sexual abuse.”

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Book:Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
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“My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing my sister and me; rather, my mission was to give a face and voice to an epidemic that society stays hushed about.”

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Book:Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
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“My mom called Grandma today and told her we would no longer be attending family parties. My mom told her we have had enough of being blamed for something Brian did and everyone brushing it off like it was no big deal.”

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Book:Stolen Innocence: Triumphing Over a Childhood Broken by Abuse: A Memoir
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“If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from.”

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Book:An Unimaginable Act: Overcoming and Preventing Child Abuse Through Erin's Law
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“While my sister and I were reminded we did not cause this pain, it was knowing that because we broke our silence about what had been done to us, our parents were hurting. That knowledge was hard on us.”

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Book:Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
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