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	<title>Violence UnSilenced &#187; sexual abuse</title>
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	<description>Violence UnSilenced: Shedding light on domestic violence and sexual abuse/assault by giving survivors a voice.</description>
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		<title>Elizabeth</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/elizabeth-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always wanted to be invisible after that first time it happened. I wanted to watch you, but I didn’t want you to see what I was up to. I remember sitting in my parents’ living room with my eyes shut down, while my breathing became rather shallow. I didn’t want you to hear me [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/elizabeth-2/' addthis:title='Elizabeth '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Caitlyn</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/caitlyn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was 15 when I first met him (I am 18 now). He was my boyfriend’s 45-year-old father. He seemed kind and nice and different. When my boyfriend and I broke up I was devastated. I tried to get back with my boyfriend, texted him as much as I could. I found out during the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/caitlyn/' addthis:title='Caitlyn '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jourdan</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/jourdan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=2169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[December 1 2007, I am in eighth grade. It was a hard year, I was mad at the world, cutting myself, had an eating disorder and was doing any drug I could get my hand on. My speech and debate team was doing a tournament at the local high school and my ex-boyfriend who was [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/jourdan/' addthis:title='Jourdan '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jeni AKA Lucky Star</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/jeni-aka-lucky-star/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/jeni-aka-lucky-star/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=2164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me start of by saying that there are many who think that I am brave for posting this blog. I am not brave. I am just no longer afraid. I am not that victim that I was in the past. i am not the confused, lost and shamed person that I was back then. [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/jeni-aka-lucky-star/' addthis:title='Jeni AKA Lucky Star '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beth</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/beth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=2157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where do I start? First time I remember it happening I was around five. My Mom and Grandma and older sister went Christmas shopping and left me with him. I was laying in my mom&#8217;s bed watching tv when I heard him coming. I know that it had to have happened before because I remember [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/beth/' addthis:title='Beth '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Charlotte</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/charlotte/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/charlotte/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=2152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it was being the youngest?  Maybe it was growing up with a workaholic father and a narcissistic mother?  Maybe it was having siblings who didn’t want to spend time with me?  Are these the aspects of my childhood that painted a target on my head?  I will never know who or what planted the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/charlotte/' addthis:title='Charlotte '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/anonymous-16/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/anonymous-16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=2144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Paper Can you take the lava Carried in my stomach for years I don’t want it anymore Lava that I swallowed in his truck because I didn’t know what else to do Lava I tasted after he threw up and came back to kiss me again I didn’t know I could say no Daddy’s enemas [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/anonymous-16/' addthis:title='Anonymous '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richard</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/richard-2/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/richard-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[men speaking out]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=2136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been two years since I first wrote my story for Violence UnSilenced.  I was 44-years-old and speaking out for the first time about sexual abuse that began when I was nine. Quite frankly, 35 years was 35 years too long to be dealing with such trauma. Still, finding my voice was a vital [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/richard-2/' addthis:title='Richard '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jo (@MinnesotaJoy)</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/jo-minnesotajoy/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/jo-minnesotajoy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=2129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can’t remember how old I was when my mom met him. He had a dog named Nika. He wore a cowboy hat. He was handsome, with black hair and blue eyes. He didn’t smoke or drink anything but Pepsi. My mom loved him and I was his girl. I called him Daddy and we [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/jo-minnesotajoy/' addthis:title='Jo (@MinnesotaJoy) '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Joyful and Independent (On the Other Side Now)</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/joyful-and-independent-on-the-other-side-now/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/joyful-and-independent-on-the-other-side-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=2069</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a slice of my history, just a little slice, but an important slice. It feels like it has some closure today and that it is time to share it. Both of my boys (in their 20s now) put an old orange tent into the back of my truck when we were all visiting [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/joyful-and-independent-on-the-other-side-now/' addthis:title='Joyful and Independent (On the Other Side Now) '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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