This was never intended to be a series; certainly, I believe other women in Smallville would have similar stories to tell, but the title refers to the statistic, to the label affixed to me when I was fourteen years old.
Oops. I posted my FDK
before reading the thread, so I didn't know that beforehand.
Indeed, the title emphasizes the depth of your story.
I'd be curious to learn what happened to them, the mother and the child...
I have spent my life determined to be more than a tragic number, to transform my experience into something other than a nightmare that even thirty years later can be recalled in horrifying detail. I use my voice to speak for those who can't ; I use myself as an example for my fourteen-year old students. Never let your worst day define you. Reclaim your power, rise above, and you win in the end.
Amen to that!
And you do it so beautifully, here, with that story, and in RL too, judging on what you achieved. You can be quite proud of being the human being that you are.
I guess this is one of the reason you write such a great Clark Kent: many of his qualities find their roots in the author.
