Why I Befriended My Rapist

Denise Clemen
5 min readFeb 8, 2020

Screaming at the Harvey Weinstein trial

Photo by Luis Galvez on Unsplash

You are old enough to know better, but you don’t. You are not worldly. You are 27 years old. This is your first big job. Your first serious money. Your first foray into being responsible for yourself. No parents. No husband. No roommates.

Nothing in your upbringing has prepared your for this night when you meet your business contact for dinner in the…

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Denise Clemen

Birth/first mother, recovering wife, retired caregiver, traveler, collage artist. Advocate of #adopteerights and #reproductiverights and other good things.