‘If women like me don’t talk about it, who will?’
I didnt understand it then.
Asked by Cagle if she was molested, Lakshmi said yes.
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I talk about it because it was certainly the first time it happened.
I think once you take a girls innocence you might never get it back, she said.
The next week, I was sent to India.
He took my hand and placed it inside his briefs.
I dont know how many times it happened before, since I suspect I slept through some incidents.
I think about all those girls I pass on the street who are in elementary school, she said.
I think about my daughters classmates or my daughter.
It happens a lot.
It happens more than we think.
It happens to seven out of 10 girls or women at some point in some way in their lives.
It was a loss of innocence in a way.
What happened to me was not even that bad compared to what happens to many young girls and boys.
But it was something that happened.
I didnt want to dwell on it.
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