At first, it's terrifying because I was aware of how afraid I was but I didn't know of what.

And at the same time, after the fact, realizing, okay, now I see how this puzzle fits together.

And it wasn't me.

That wasn't the result of what had happened to me.

And then there is a cycle of disbelief and sadness and anger.

There's a whole bunch of things that come up because this is something to happen with my mother.

It also involved pediatrician.

There are several incidents.

So there's a whole cycle thing but going into it is if someone is holding you by the hair,

saying, open your eyes, you have to look, you have to look and you don't want your spare to death to look.

But then when you look and you look in the air quotes.

And you finally are able to face these things and understand what happened when you were five or six years old.

That in and of itself is a sense of profound and absolute relief.

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