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Somewhere in all this, I need a moment to write something. I've been to court too many times this month. I've remembered some things that I had kept... not so much hidden from myself, but I had worked actively to avoid encoding. I was raped by my abuser and this truth has only surfaced in the last two months, when another of his former partner's described incidents that very much resemble the night that I met him. The use of substances to cloud judgment, to dull the senses, to overwrite biologic