Sharing stories of sexual abuse 'helps to heal the hurt'

"Having the horror heard helps to heal the hurt." My stepmother, Dot, shared her wonderfully alliterative mantra with me years ago as we pondered the benefits of a person going to a counselor when stuck in pain. In her wise and eye-twinkling way, Dot -- whose husband had been struck by a car and killed many years before, leaving her with 12 children to raise -- was telling me how she had survived.

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