One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.

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I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.

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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

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You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

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And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.

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