Month: February 2023
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Why be Loud?
Since I started to research and listen to other’s stories of Domestic Abuse, one quote has really stuck with me the most, “Abuse thrives only in silence(TED, 2013, 14:59).” Leslie Morgan Steiner said this during her TEDx talk titled, “Why Domestic Violence Victims Don’t Leave.” This was one of the first TED talks I watched […]
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Once Upon a Time
I met, let’s call him “Paul,” in the Kansas City Airport. I was on my way to my very first duty station in the Army. I was fresh out of job training and nervous as hell. I enlisted straight out of high school. I had never lived on my own before, and though I was […]