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	<title>Shatter The Silence™ &#187; Poetry</title>
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		<title>21 years old in Louisville, KY</title>
		<link>http://takebackthenight.org/shatter-the-silence/2009/11/21-years-old-in-louisville-ky-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am surviving this disease that you told me not to speak of.
For years, it has eaten away at everything inside me that was good.
It has hardened my heart, tourtured my conscience, and destroyed my trust.
You&#8217;ve stolen my innocense, my father&#8217;s pride, my first kiss.
You called it a mistake.
I call it rape.
I am surviving this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>18 years old in Columbia, MD</title>
		<link>http://takebackthenight.org/shatter-the-silence/2009/10/18-years-old-in-columbia-md-2/</link>
		<comments>http://takebackthenight.org/shatter-the-silence/2009/10/18-years-old-in-columbia-md-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to be a survivor?
I am one who has walked through fire
And back again with hidden wounds.
I’ve seen the darkest nights
Full of pain, consumed with shame.
I’ve been thankful for the brighter days When hope prevails.
Blocking out the years
Of hurtful memories.
To see these tears falling
Like they never fell before,
I ask, “Why?”
I thought I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>43 years old in Merkel, TX</title>
		<link>http://takebackthenight.org/shatter-the-silence/2009/07/43-years-old-in-merkel-tx/</link>
		<comments>http://takebackthenight.org/shatter-the-silence/2009/07/43-years-old-in-merkel-tx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This happened July 13, 2008
MAN OF MY DREAMS
I was married at 28
to the man of my dreams,
He was wonderful,
and loving and was caring to me.
It was subtle at first,
Just little things changed,
Then before I new it
He was controlling and enraged.
 I couldn’t do anything right
It was always my fault.
He had me believing
I was wrong about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19 years old in Atlanta, GA</title>
		<link>http://takebackthenight.org/shatter-the-silence/2009/04/19-years-old-in-atlanta-ga/</link>
		<comments>http://takebackthenight.org/shatter-the-silence/2009/04/19-years-old-in-atlanta-ga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew it was true,
but how was I to know
that the danger was you?
I trusted in you,
my protector and friend,
until you threw it all away.
You’ll never be that again.
I woke up and your filth,
it was all I could feel.
I could not believe
that the moment was real
I was frozen and frightened
with no idea what to do,
so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>23 years old in Oneonta, NY</title>
		<link>http://takebackthenight.org/shatter-the-silence/2009/02/23-years-old-in-oneonta-ny/</link>
		<comments>http://takebackthenight.org/shatter-the-silence/2009/02/23-years-old-in-oneonta-ny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for whisking me off my feet.
Thank you for becoming my ballroom dancing partner.
Thank you for suggesting we should practice the fox trot in the lounge of a residence hall, because this was when our romantic feelings began.
Thank you for wanting to treat me like a princess but not really knowing how.
Thank you for [...]]]></description>
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