An A&E, Original Podcast.

This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and violence.

Listener discretion is advised.

Now I'm not dying. This is not happening. I say because if I do die, I'm a

heart, I'm a ask the Lord, let me haunt you the rest of your life so that you will know you couldn't get away with this.

In 1988,

in Eichria Marquette was going through a transition phase in her life.

I was about 27 years old living in South LA between Dinker and Normandy at the time. I had took children,

youngsters. I was going through a rough period in my life, just split up the facts. He was keeping the children and I didn't have nothing

to keep myself busy besides work, but I was still trying to get my own self together because I was like in a bad place to myself at the time the reason

of the breakup because I was a really big I'm a big girl I was really big then I would say verbal insults, the mindset at the time, is not in very good

frame as for me. I used to be you you know, not caring about what I weighed or look like, still don't. I've gotten used to myself and comfortable with myself. I should say now. Back then I think skinny was in and skinny is not me.

Though Anitria was only 27, she had already been working in home care for 12 years.

I've been doing home health care since I was 15.

In 1988, I was working home care for a friend of mine, his wife, she was diabetic and blind.

Time it happened. I was just coming from work and I was going to go to a party that night and I

happened to walk past this store at the corner where I was staying at and car caught my eye it was an orange pinto and I was like I know

that's not a pinto because you know you see no pinto since 77 and I mean they had

stopped making them and I was like okay and I looked at it and I was checking it out because it was you know

Pretty well pimped out

It looked just like the hot wheel cards that they were at the time for the children, the die cast once.

It was orange with a white strip going down, racing stripes.

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