It’s one of those things you hold inside your whole life and it’s not good for you. It brings back things, when I hear other peoples’ stories, they’re almost PTSD-like. So I wanted to get it out of there and not keep it a secret, and I wanted other people—other women, in particular—to see that it happens to everybody, unfortunately, sadly, and not to feel alone or estranged because of it.
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