Beneath the foliage of the Yucatan peninsula and the waters of the Gulf of Mexico lies an ancient impact crater. Scientists believe this is the site where a meteor the size of Mt. Everest struck the earth, resulting in extinction of the dinosaurs. Sixty-five million years later, geologic evidence for that impact is still present.
It is not uncommon for abuse victims to view abuse as the central event in their lives, and to define themselves with reference to it.
As with the Chicxulub crater, evidence of the abuse is still present years later. Forever after, that destructive event (or series of events) will be the dividing line in victims’ lives: pre-abuse and post-abuse, the difference between innocence and innocence lost.
All too many women and children will die, as a result of abuse – some at the hands of a loved one, some by their own hand, years after…
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