Incident Survivors Book Report

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There are many survivors who must lead their lives in fear of another attack, survivors like Helena. Helena had just turned seventeen years old and had received a vintage Volkswagen from her mother. Just days later, while washing her new car at a self-service station, a stranger approached her knife in hand and demanded she get into the vehicle. From there, he instructed her to drive to different locations and repeatedly raped her. After being held for hours, Helena had convinced him to let her go. He promised he would kill her family if she went to the police and took her drivers license so that he knew where she lived. He promised Helena that he would come visit her again and make her “his girlfriend.” Seeing that the coast was clear, she

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