To all women everywhere...

She is beautiful. She is a daughter, a sister, a friend...she carries her pain within her, and goes on every day pretending to be fine, pretending to be ok. She is the student struggling day in and day out to make ends meet. She is the model, hiding the truth from every snapshot. She is the mother, teaching her daughters the dangers of parties. She is me. She is you. She is women everywhere. This is not a new phenomenom, it has gone on for centuries. But we now have the right to talk about it, we can come together to support each other and when one of us feels like we are falling, slipping down into that famiiar deep, dark hole...we now have other survivors to pick us up and support us until we can stand on our own 2 feet again. Revel in this...for this is a new concept. I am not ashamed, and neither should you be. Look around you, the sad fact is majority of women you know have experienced this sorrow. We have no need to be shamed, for we did not do this to ourselves. When a thief goes in and robs a store...do we chastise the owner? Do we stand there and look at them an say "You should not have made money today! You should not have displayed what you own! Yo should be ashamed!" No, we do not. Therefore, neither should we chastise women who have been raped! We punish the theives, we shame THEM! We scold them and say "You had no right to take this! You had no right to enter their property and take what rightfully belongs to them!" So, my women, my strong, beautiful, courageous women... be not ashamed. Take pride in our strength and our support and remember if we are all alone, then we are all together in that too. I love you all and God Bless.

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