"Only after disaster can we be resurrected." -Tyler Durdan, Fight Club"How are you coping, Detective ( Read more... )

WARNING: Explicit adult content (depiction of rape, violence) below the cut.

"Woke up with a war in my head" ~Damage, You Am I
"Lift the mattress off the floor; Walk the cramps off; Go meander in the cold; Hail to your dark skin; Hiding the fact you're dead again" ~Caring Is Creepy, The ShinsAnna hated her birthday. She always did, and she always ( Read more... )

I hate this time of year.

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For some people, coming to terms with trauma takes a lifetime. For me? A decade was all I needed to come full-circle with my own demon.

( My 7 Stages of Coping )

What is the one thing you cannot forgive?

You're asking me to pinpoint just one. Well, let's skip the obvious "murder" answer and go to something a little more interesting but obvious in it's own wayOne thing I will not, cannot ever forgive, is the act of violating another human being and killing their soul. Rape, sexual abuse, sexual assault, ( Read more... )

Talk about the one(s) that got away.

It wasn't my case. It never will be my case. But he will always be the one who got away.

I can't tell you his name - not because it's confidential or important to an investigation that is long past the statute of limitations anyway - but because I don't know it. If I had any clue as to his identity, I'd have ( Read more... )

TEN moments that define you as a person.

1. Moving from Milan to Staten Island. Granted, I was about 14 months old when it happened... but it gave me dual citizenship and Milan will always be home to me. I feel I'm more in touch with my culture and my roots because I was born abroad. We won't get going on how that affected Stephen's opinion of me. ( Read more... )