The First Domino: Looking Back on the Cataclysmic Moment (or, “It Could Have Been Inconsequential”)

Are you going through a hard time? I was 18 years old and more innocent than my friends knew what to do with when the boy asked to meet me after class. I'd been a victim of bullying for some time, and I hadn't much self-esteem, so the first time a boy I didn't know …