Paul Wesselmann remembers well the
day he made the decision to reach out for help for the sexual abuse he
endured as a young teen. It was 1994 — the year "Forrest Gump" was
buzzing as the must-see movie of the summer. Wesselmann, then a young
man in his 20s, went to see it alone. On the way to the grocery store
after leaving the theater, he had to pull over because he was sobbing so
hard.
It was that famous
scene where Forrest came looking for Jenny because she didn’t get on the
bus for school that morning that rattled him to the core. As Jenny’s
father stumbles drunk outside with a flask in his hand and yelling for
his daughter, Jenny tells Forrest to run. They head out into the
cornfield behind her Alabama shack as her father chases after her, and
she hits her knees and says, “Pray with me, Forrest,” and then begins to
chant, “Dear God, make me a bird, so I can fly far, far, far away from
here.”
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