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Random stream of consciousness: Thursday. Thursdays in black. Thinking of women and children affected by violence. Just wearing the words makes me feel like I am doing something. A black tee shirt as a form of protest. Of action. Of reaction. Across my chest- Yes to healthy relationships. On my back - No to violence against women. In my 20s and 30s I was became friends with a man and I learnt later, who had beaten his wife. I was not friends with him when he was beating his wife, but afterwards. I knew what he had done. I did not condone it. I did not condemn him. I compartmentalised his violent history because it was not directed at me, because it was in the past, I did not have to face it. He did not beat me. If he were alive I would want to ask if he felt regret, guilt, shame, and sorrow. If he were alive I would want him to know that he influenced me, and that the older, wiser me faces his violent past by standing up against domestic violence today and in the
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