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It is time us women take our power back. It is time we use our voice. This is my voice.
Taking the power back
18 June 2004, I was drinking vodka with 2 men at the party. one man left and the other man took me to the dance floor, I told him I needed water. I was, at this point, drunk, he said "later". He then took me outside the party tent, and french kissed me three times. I tried to get away from him but then he grabbed my hand and pulled me closer, then we walked to the 'stands' at the place and sexually assaulted, to which I had told him "NO" the response was "you wanted it! you want this!" I said "I don't want this!" I saw him again in 2016, and I am photographed on Getty Images at this charity event, I look like I saw a ghost, when it was him who I saw. The trauma returned and I hid in the sand instead of moving past it. Others at the charity, I knew from 2004, made me feel unwelcome there because I was the only women in the group that turned any of them down for sex. Women we do not give sexual favors, just because a man gave us a bottle of beer.
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