Day One: No One NoticedI think one of my most memorable heartbreaks came at age 8. After my parent had split and I had to bounce from one of their houses to the other. As terrible as this sounds, this isn't doesn't even rank on my list of major heartbreaks. It only contributed to the big, giant, gut wrenching one. So in this epic parental split they both ended up finding other people to be with. My parents both found new people to share their lives with. However, my Dad found a women with children of her own. Among those children was a significantly older than me, son. Starting to see where I'm going? This immensely charming, relatively responsible, golden child is the protagonist in the story of this, my most epic heartbreak. The story centers around a helpless 8 year old being molested by an otherwise trustworthy step brother. In all seriousness, these stories are a dime a dozen these days so I would bore you with the details. The heartbreak comes from realizing that because the aforementioned step brother was so charming and so respectful and trustworthy he had everyone fooled. No one, to this day has ever questioned anything. Even with all the cryptic comments I make in hopes that someone will ask me about a suspicion they had because the thought of me bringing it up myself makes me physically ill. I've gone through some major phases of hating my parents for this. I mean after all the two people who's sole responsibility it was to keep me safe, happy, and health failed. I'm starting to come to the realization that it wasn't their fault, he was just cunning and deceptive. This isn't to say that my heart still isn't broken at the thought of the fact that my parents were so busy in their new lives to notice my tremendous childhood trauma. -Anonymous
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Hunter FergusonHolding her Associates of Arts in Political Science, Implementing Beneficial Community Project, and having Led a Student Collaboration team at her college of attendance- Hunter chooses to blog about the world around her as well as her personal experiences in hopes of creating a Powerful group of like-minded people. Archives
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