To tutus and pink walls, at 2
To being taught your own perfect fairytale and knowing it’s never what you want, at 5
To seeing Channel 5 show another face of a missing girl
Or another doctor that decided he could take advantage, at 10
To being terrified that these terrible, terrible things might happen to me, or you, or a cousin, or anyone, at 13
To never going to the bathroom alone, at 15
To crying with a friend at midnight because someone decided she didn’t need her innocence anymore, at 16
To another friend being pregnant and homeless, at 18
To not setting your drink down because you’re terrified of being roofied like the stories, at 21
To the family dinners of family asking about your “special someone”, at 25
To the always struggle of our lives
To the misunderstood
To the many more things I have not listed
To the victims
To the females, we are the future
