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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

I was drugged.

Just typing those words pains me, scares me to death. If it weren't for friends who intercepted me at the bar, things could have been much, much worse. I still feel sick at the thought of a bar or alcohol, and it's been hard just to eat the past few days for fear it will all come back up once I remember that this happened to me.

The knowledge that this happened to me is still a foreign concept. I can't imagine where I would have woken up and in what state I would be in if it weren't for the intervention of friends.

I release this memory (or lack thereof) so that others may know that this CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. I know we've heard this a thousand times over, but it never sank in until I was that person that it happened to.

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