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visited relatives, went out to dinner with the uncle who molested me. He is so old and weak now; can't even drive. He seems creepy but harmless now. I wish they'd just put him in assisted living. He does have an extra chromosome and lowered IQ and did time for hurting someone else after he hurt me; if you're wondering why I'd be near him. So messed up, but still my family.
maybe seeing my uncle and still feeling "raped" from all those years ago is making me dwell on the groin attack last year. Still feel "phantom aches" around labia and clitoris sometimes. I do feel like I've been raped, even though it was a groin attack; kicked in the butt. Can't think of anything positive about it. It would've been humiliating to press charges and they would have used my crush on my dance teacher and "sexual" dancing against me. If I act out online, they'll say I'm a stalker. I have no rights.
I am thankful I was not seriously physically hurt. I think my anatomy helped. My inner labia are tiny; for crucial seconds the foot was "floating" in my body without doing damage. Then, he hit the clitoris. I could feel him giving the anus a good kick, then moving onto the groin. And to get in there, he first had to push through the buttocks. Sorry if it's too graphic.
I was incapacitated for at least 15 seconds. Couldn't move; I guess the same feeling guys get from being kicked, but internal, almost like my whole body. So he got to enjoy me standing there. I still don't know if he said, "It's okay" in a soothing voice or "THAT was okay" in a threatening voice because I heard both.
I was able to walk away. I had taken a lot of I ibuprofen. The whole thing reminded me of my uncle hurting me, so I just felt some kind of empathy and guilt at that point. Anger came later. It's hard to take being in this particular "boy's club." Can't believe he did that to me.
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Welcome to the Perseid meteor showers, the "biggies" usually every year. (The Leonids beat 'em one year IMHO).AND today much of the northern hemisphere will see 5 to 99% solar eclipse. How cool is that? Your best bet is to be in the UK or norhtern Spain, where totality is excellent before sundown. Me, I'll get a super duper tiny itty bitty slice of it, so little that it won't be noticeable. New...
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... observed a solar eclipse.


My aunt is in late stage cancer and I was invited up there to receive an heirloom. I'm a sucker.
Hope you're doing better!
I vote we dump the etiquette books and let a body part --with all its interconnections-- be a body part.
The only good thing I can think to come out of either trauma is healing. Hope healing happens here, Dance. You deserve it.
Get as graphic as needed to achieve your healing.
I'm sure your aunt wanted to see you and say "goodbye", and it was generous of you to go despite your uncle. I hope the heirloom is something nice.
Keep sorting, ds. Your answers are in there.
P.S. Apology for calling you "Dance" in the previous post. My bad. My name handicap strikes again. . . I am horrible with names.