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The morning is here for me to show you, you so young and fresh and not yet used to your bodies. Teeth just out of braces, I want you to clomp on the ideas, on greatness, but the sun, its rays are elusive, clouded. The whole world is a name on the tip of my tongue I so much want to share it with you if I can just remember how to say it.

No Room for the Comfort of Fearful Men

I was devastated yesterday. I kept thinking of my friend who was raped at 13 by her best friend's brother and how this world would treat her if she told. I kept thinking of my friend who was molested until she had her boyfriend move in to protect her. My friend who didn't come back to herself until her senior year of college because of "date" rape. I kept thinking of all the beautiful powerful female souls who haven't told and what this world could do to them and how it could skip over their pain and the inconvenience of holding society to account. But then I got a text from this woman friend who is arguably the most successful of all of my friends. I'm so proud to call her my friend. And she was devastated too and it made me understand first why this hurts so much; that it hurts all of us who are thinking, caring people. It is insulting and painful. And secondly it made me consider a path forward where we move boldly and with the courage of our co