She held Daddy's hand looking down into an empty hole, our basement of our new house being built, She didn't know the horror that lay in wait for her The basement wasn't just a place to play dolls in At the age of five, she was sexually assaulted by someone there and continued as she grew. She was introduced to sexual things no little girl (or boy) should ever be She told her mother, she looked at her coldly and said "Nice girls don't act like that, never talk about this again" She must not be "a nice girl" because it was happening to her, now she knew she had no one to help her No one As she grew up this terrible secret was making her sick She tried anything, to get rid of this inside pain and still look "normal" outside As she grew it took her down a dark spiral staircase into a world of sex, drugs, alcohol to numb the pain in her mind and heart which were growing darker, and harder by the moment Her life was raw, in your face She tells it as she lived it The pain will follow us through life, if we don't face it, deal with it She found hope on her quest to live a "normal" life Take this journey with her, see there is hope for you as well