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    Ever Evolving: A Journey of Healing
    Ever Evolving: A Journey of Healing
    Ever Evolving: A Journey of Healing
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    Ever Evolving: A Journey of Healing

    By Nadine Dunseith

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    This fourth book of poetry from Nadine Dunseith touches upon a sensitive, yet empowering journey from her childhood. It is a book of survival and trauma. For anyone who has struggled with past childhood trauma, she hopes this book of poetry can bestow a voice to those who have been silenced.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNadine Dunseith
    Release dateFeb 28, 2020
    ISBN9781393441656
    Ever Evolving: A Journey of Healing
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    Nadine Dunseith

    Nadine Dunseith is a high school English teacher. She considers herself to be a lover of Shakespeare and the poetry of Sylvia Plath. She finds inspiration in stories that reveal the human experience in all its beauty and pain. When she is not teaching and marking papers, she is likely writing poetry, playing with her two children, or reading a wonderful book.

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      Ever Evolving - Nadine Dunseith

      Prologue

      Words are powerful . Words can define a generation of thinkers. In the 21 st Century, words become hashtags and hashtags become actions. The #MeToo movement has inspired so many young women to come forward and share their stories of sexual violence.

      I am one of those women.

      When you are silenced, the words are even more powerful.

      For the longest time, I didn’t name it. I didn’t have the words.

      Childhood sexual abuse.

      Something I didn’t confront until adulthood. I didn’t have the words because I couldn’t defend myself.

      Words define, describe, help us to understand.

      Now into adulthood with my own children, I can name it.

      At eight years old, I was sexually abused by my uncle. For the following nine years, he continued to prey on me with his lascivious stares, his gifts, and his unwanted touches.

      I told my parents and my grandmother. I know they believed me, but there was nothing substantial that happened to my uncle. He kept after me, the result of which emboldened him to keep coming around and terrorizing me, including touching my thigh when I was completely unaware, kissing me on the lips for my birthday, and bringing chocolate treats for his beautiful niece. There were times he

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