00:00I'm driving home but I'm saying to myself I feel like I had this urge to just get my story
00:05out of
00:05me. I just want to like detach it from this from this like cage like that's been trapped in for
00:09so
00:09long. So I turn my car left, I get my phone, I put it onto the dashboard, press record and
00:15then I put
00:15the video up onto Facebook. Sometime after that, not too long, I go around to my auntie's house
00:21and I go around to her house to visit her. Now my cousin Kelly was abused by him too and
00:27my auntie
00:28says to me, Perry I watched the video, Kelly's watched the video too. I'm like okay and she's
00:33like you know you weren't the only one that was abused by him. She's like well it wasn't just you
00:38two. She goes it was me. She goes and it was your dad and then when she said that and
00:43it was your dad
00:44I remember just sitting back into the sofa and I'm just like all of the dots connected. Why my dad
00:49told me to stay silent, why he became a... that's when I'm like right the silence that has broken
00:57my family for generations is gonna end with me. I'm going to make it end with me and that's still
01:03in the year of 2018, seven years ago and ever since then every single day I'm like I'm committing
01:11myself to growing this movement to helping survivors find their voice and helping them to make the
01:16generational cycle of silence end with them too and then it led me to write a book and I found
01:22for me
01:22personally that a lot of healing happened as a by-product of that version of myself that I wanted to
01:27become.
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