She says she couldn’t fully face the trauma from her experience for many years — after she became a mother, and watched her own daughter turn 11.
“A lot of my grief was really realizing what it must have been like for my mother to go through something like that,” Elaine says.
Elaine spent a few years in therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. She says she’s sharing her story now because she wants to make clear that these situations do happen, even if people would rather not think about them.
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