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I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

by Ellen Bass, Louise Thornton · 1983

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A reissue of the now-classic anthology (with more than 60,000 copies sold) of deeply moving testimonies by survivors of child sexual abuse—with a new afterword by Ellen Bass, co-author of The Courage to Heal.

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adult
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