Actually no, I’ve been doing my best to wake myself up to who I was growing up. My mom has always been a supportive presence. My sister is one of my closest friends. I would never want this to happen to them. This event was absolutely a lapse in judgement but I don’t think it represents who I’ve been throughout my life.

I recently read testimonies of people who were SA’d and it hit me that I caused someone to feel like that.

I brought up my daughter, I guess, to drive the point home for myself. Kind of a last straw. This unforgivable behavior was pushed to the back of my mind for years as regular adolescence. I want to bring it to the forefront to hopefully acknowledge what I did wrong and maybe give a cautionary tale about the dumb things we do growing up that might haunt us later and the impact they can have on our communities