Chapter 346

• How can I recall these things and feel like I asked for them? I didn’t ask for them. I didn’t ask Ray to try to rape me, but deep down, that child is nodding at me somewhere inside, and she’s saying, “Yes, Emma, yes, you did.
• Why else would these men, one after the other, try to touch you? Try to take you? You must have done something, Emma. Your own mother believed it.”
• It’s the guilt I forever shy away from, the shame and misery of my internal battle. It’s what she programmed me to accept.