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In reply to the discussion: Selling dryer Buyer says he can get it out if I help Fuck it I pick up a side Then I see look on his [View all]jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)I posted an OP early this morning. It was powerful to me and I wanted to share it. Clearly giving the author in the first line. Then I went to DEM HQ to work 2 shifts. I came home and checked in on DU and found that DU was receptive to this story. However, some mistakenly thought I was the lady with the dryer. I don't usually comment on comments. Nor do I live on blogs...I do have a life and that life now is canvassing and working at DEM HQ. I post the OP and that is that. However my pal alerted me to the fact that some posters were spitting and spatting that I was some kind of charlatan. I would like to share the letter I published in our local paper the day before the HEARINGS. MY story with MY name on it. I am no stranger to these issues...Jody Marie Aimee Hurrish. In solidarity with all the wonderful people on DU.
I WAS A RAPE VICTIM 4 SEPARATE TIMES BY 4 DIFFERENT MEN
Between 1969 and 1971, I was a rape victim four separate times by four different men. I knew only one of them tangentally as a roadie for a local band. I would have never told anyone, least of all my parents. They would have yelled at ME. I have a photographic memory, but I could not tell you today the address of the house, the color of the room, the name of the guy, what I may or may not have ingested, etc.
So none of this is off kilter, you tend to block bad events. Rico Suave Trump was nuts when he tweeted Professor Ford's "loving parents should have reported their daughter's assault to the FBI 35 years ago". Thereby, discounting it.
I want nobody's sympathy, trigger schmigger...It is almost 50 years ago. I am only telling you facts. You didn't tell the cops, your Mom and Dad, and since Patty Hearst didn't live in our house, we didn't have the FBI's phone number on our fridge.
I wrote a letter about it eight years ago for a local paper, the first time I told anyone. The editor said I was brave. No, I was honest. It was time, it was a letter regarding womens' rights, and I had something to contribute. Consider this contribution #2.