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Simon: On Being the One Who Tried

She was just nine years old when she died. We had never met until that day. I guess, when you think about it, we never met at all. I never knew her name. She was just a girl playing on automatic gate that you drove through to get in and out of my apartment complex. …

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Andrea: On Breaking the Silence

Note from the editor – Andrea’s first language isn’t English but I decided to leave her words unedited. Leaving them as such wasn’t to show any weakness on Andrea’s part, but to show again her determination to get her and her daughter’s story out. I did however choose to not publish a photo of her …

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Carla: On Being Wonder Woman

“Beautiful as Aphrodite, Wise as Athena.” Wonder Woman has always fascinated me. Ever since I was a little girl, I watched the TV series with Lynda Carter portraying the beautiful superheroine. I even had Wonder Woman underoos and remember driving my parents insane as I jumped off the couches flinging my cardboard tiara (actually believing …