00:00I would wake up to him touching me, not knowing what to do.
00:04At first, I didn't understand. I was like kind of frozen.
00:07Okay, I'm home, so I was supposed to feel safe.
00:10I wanted to say something. I didn't know how to.
00:12And when he comes, I was like, how can I kind of let him know that this is not okay,
00:17that I don't like it?
00:18So I would move, pretending that I was sleeping, covering my sensitive parts.
00:22My mind was processing, who am I going to say this to?
00:25So what I did was I wrote a letter, and I was going to send it to my mom.
00:29And my grandmother then found the letter, and she told me, do not even think of saying something.
00:36She said, I can create a tragedy in the family.
00:39She said, you know, your brother might kill your grandfather.
00:42In my mind, I was like, oh, but what about me?
00:45But at the same time, you know, I'm under their roof, and they are the ones who are supporting me,
00:51giving me food and everything.
00:53I was like, all right, then I'm not going to say anything. I'm going to wait.
00:56When I was about 14 to 15, then I moved with my father.
01:01I felt so good because I was, like, relieved.
01:03In that house, it happened in one night.
01:05Somebody came in the house in the middle of the night.
01:08He entered the house, went to my room, and I was sleeping.
01:12He started touching, and in my head, I thought that it was my father.
01:16Because, you know, I had that incident with my grandfather, and I'm in the house with my father.
01:22So automatically, I'm like, okay, like, what is happening again?
01:26This is my father.
01:27Maybe this is a normal thing that they do.
01:29But I'm grateful.
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