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My mother told a family member she was certain I would kill myself. She didn't call me. She didn't text. She reached for a story about a notary that wasn't even true.
Nobody trained me for this
When you lead a hundred people and two of them are in crisis, the organisation expects you to hold it all. Nobody asks who holds you.
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir isn't about the men who abused her. It's about how victims are made - and how they fight back.
The verdict overturned
My father handed me an envelope labelled "shit report cards." Inside were years of evidence about who I had been. But old stories don't always fit the people we've become: especially when the story was never accurate to begin with
The day I got a name for it
Four diagnoses on paper. Nine months of waiting. Six months of assessment. And then: the crushing relief of finally being seen.