I don't understand how can one childhood incident take so much of me away. I've always read of stories, watched films, listened to personal testimony of people having to endure years of sexual abuse.

At the age of 7 my parent's worker molested me. A one time incident that I have a very vivid memory of and it has torn down every part of my women-hood, any self worth and confidence in myself. Shame is always in the background ready to tear any hope down for a new life.

Why? How?
1 time incident and I will never know who I should have been and life that I could have had.