For Your Consideration: Letters Of Thanks To My Rapist
Submitted by partygarbage on July 6, 2008
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I am reluctant to write about you raping me. Rape is the type of thing that puts people so very on edge; edge of their seats, clinging to the edge, need a drink to take the edge off kind of edge.
Before you raped me, I was vibrant in the worst kind of way. I moved like I was a dancer and danced like I was terrible in bed. But I was not a walking contradiction, because to say that would be cliché, and I was no cliché.
It's true that most of the time I was being watched, a little vibrant spec in the middle of a sea of black umbrellas and suits, a spec that was undeniably seen. If you were looking at something special then, something that seemed to rise to the top in a bubble, then you may have been staring at me. I wonder now if you chose me for this reason.
Those days, before you raped me, I had a smell so very few...