Learning to trust again

In time healing

Catherine Oceano
The Lark
Published in
8 min readJun 10, 2021

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Daisies in the summer. Photo credit: author

It’s a well-known fact that your life can change permanently in seconds. Take a gunshot or a slip of the steering wheel or a bee sting for someone allergic.

A rape takes longer than seconds but maybe the choice you made to put you in that place only took that long. That’s what she wondered, anyway.

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Catherine Oceano
The Lark

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