Stories of Survivors

Hi! 

I’ve been working up the strength to fully let this out of my system.  In the process of analyzing whether to publish this here or forget about it, I remembered all the powerful stories that our wonderful followers have shared with us and published here in an act of courage and bravery.  Thinking about all those survivors inspired me to finally let it out to someone more than my closest friends.  I’ll try to be as quick as possible.  Here goes. 

When I was 16 I met a young man on a cruise.  He seemed to have a little crush on me, but I simply ignored it feeling safe about having my older cousins around.  We were a group of 10 people and we had all met on the same place.  My cousin was with me, so it was ok.  We decided to sneak into a place on the ship where we could see the ocean in a better view.  I got sea-sick and all of the sudden everyone decided to go grab some pizza.  I don’t remember how I ended up on some upper ladders of a sailor’s cabin with the boy that had a crush on me.  When I managed to feel better he pushed me down and unzipped his pants.  I told him that those were not my intentions, and that he should just let me go.  Obviously, that didn’t work.  He slapped me and called me horrible names and  I felt like I wasn’t going to get away from it, that I was trapped.  So, I tried to go with it because I thought I had no other choice.  When suddenly, it came to me.  When he forcefully tried to shove his genitals into my mouth I bit him so hard and that gave me some seconds to run away.  I never told my aunt why I got to the room so late and I took her punishment for violating her curfew.  I was very afraid.

In someway, I managed to forget about it and make the best out of my life.  Now I’m strong enough to publish it here and I’m here, trying to help out A and you guys with your situations.  It’s possible to overcome it and to be strong about it, take my word for it. 

- M