How to write a letter to your abuser by avinashsingh

cnn · @avinashsingh · Jan 28 '18

How to write a letter to your abuser

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a letter to your abuser
By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN

Updated 1521 GMT (2321 HKT) January 27, 2018
Survivors confront former gymnastics doctor
(CNN)By the time she stepped up to the microphone at Larry Nassar's sentencing, Kyle Stephens had spent more than a year preparing to face the disgraced doctor who sexually assaulted her as a child.

She collected memories, thoughts, and pithy one-liners in a file on her computer labeled "impact statement." Then, the night before she was set to deliver her statement, one of her most piercing lines came to her.
It was around 12:30 in the morning and she had reached the end of a paragraph. But it felt unfinished, she said. She thought about the impression she wanted to leave, not only on Nassar and the judge, but on everyone else listening.
"Little girls don't stay little forever. They grow into strong women that return to destroy your world."

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