My assault journey
In early February, I was attacked while walking my dog before work. It was just after 5:30 a.m. A man I didn’t know came at me with a knife. The physical wounds are healing. The emotional ones—fear, hypervigilance, guilt—are harder to treat. In the days after, I asked myself over and over: Why was I
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