One thing about me? I am going to protect myself. I learned how to do it while I was still in diapers, and I perfected it after the incident.

I no longer allow myself to be in certain positions.

I let people know this early in our acquaintance, I stress it when things look like they could develop. If you make it to the vulnerable version of myself, you get the full explanation of why, and how I will protect myself. I’ve been through too much to get caught out there slippin, so to speak, not in any way I’ve gotten caught in the past.

I often need to learn lessons, I rarely need to learn the same ones.

The only thing which would have been sweeter, that is a phrase, none of this shit is fucking sweet, would be if the date were August 4 or August 8. August 2 will have to do though. There is more to come, this is not over but the first step has happened.