"I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality."

Trauma, Reality, Loss, Evidence

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"I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality."

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