And over glasses of beer and wine, Suzanne told me a series of painful truths that helped unravel one of the central mysteries of my childhood. In the same conversation, I learned that my brother was a sexual predator, and that my mother was a rape victim. Suzanne told me that Todd and a group of his friends had sexually assaulted Christie’s half-sister, Denise, in our home. All I see is me on the chair and all their hands everywhere on me,” Denise told me. This is something many women know and have known, but I was discovering it first-hand.

Source: The Guardian November 28, 2017 10:03 UTC