I Was Raped At 16. It Changed Everything About Me

That night tore me apart. Over time, I just kind of got used to it, little by little. I genuinely thought for a long time I wasn’t going to make the first anniversary, I thought I was going to kill myself. But you get past that, and then you think well, I’ve got past the first anniversary, and then bit by bit things get easier. And it’s all little achievements. And then they build up until it doesn’t hurt as much any more, and you don’t think about it as much any more. It’s more like, in a little box now.