Thank you so much. I think it is really hard--and sometimes impossible--for people to understand that what we really do need is to feel like we are not alone, and that others do have something for us besides scorn. And that the thing is compassion. That's what I needed and still need.

But I don't know if I can call this assault. Maybe I used the wrong word. I'm not sure. I said he "dragged" me back there, which is true. He had me by the arm, and was pulling me. But the word "dragged" might imply that I was resisting. And I wasn't. He had me by the arm and pulled me up his drive, yes, but I never said, "No," and my feet were moving too.

And when I say "I couldn't have resisted if I had wanted to," doesn't that point out that in order for you to be assaulted, you have to resist?