REASONS NOT TO KILL YOURSELF: because you deserve to live because your life has value, whether or not you can see it, because it was not your fault, because you didn't choose to be battered and used, because life itself is precious, because they were and are wrong, because you are connected to each and every other abuse survivor, and so your daily battle automatically gives others hope and strength. because you will feel better, …
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…show them that even though they had all the power and strength and ruthless cunning, even though we were only helpless, innocent dependent children, we will have beaten them at the game they so smugly thought they had mastered, because I am furious that we have to suffer the pain of another's evil and filth because you too will one day feel fury, because it is critical that you survive. ....by Mari Collings ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**