Survivor to WAARior: My journey to support women, end abuse

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Survivor to WAARior: My journey to support women, end abuse

At the tender age of 4, my life took a traumatic turn with verbal abuse from a parent that lasted throughout my teen years and beyond, and sexual assault by a “boyfriend,” which was a one-time occurrence until it wasn’t. When I was 14, I decided to date a 19-year-old who hung out on the stoop of our apartment building. Kids hanging out on stoops was a thing back then in the summer of 1969. I ignored my mother, who tried to prevent me from seeing…