Something Was Wrong is intended for mature audiences and discusses topics that may be upsetting.

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Thank you so much for listening.

You think you know me, you don't know me well at all.

You don't know anybody till you talk to someone.

Last time, on something was wrong.

I knew things about him from his past.

I knew that he had substance issues because Utah is so small and everybody knows each other.

I always anticipated that because we had this mutual friend and because we had a mutual understanding of each other,

that nothing like this would have ever happened. It wasn't even on my radar.

In the time I've known, Marissa, I had never seen her like that before. So to see her that shaken up

and that emotional felt very big and like something serious happened.

After they finished the exam, the victim advocate, the first thing that she told me to do was to go

talk to my college. I made an appointment with UVU's Title IX office.

He kept telling me, you look like you're doing well.

And I remember being so hurt by that because I was dying inside.

When I met with UVU, my parents hadn't known yet about the assault.

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