When Closure Is Out of Reach

On seeing my abuser when I least expected it

Maggie Haukka
Human Parts
Published in
3 min readMar 14, 2019

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II wasn’t sure I would ever see you again. I wasn’t sure I wanted to. By the time I left, I was so afraid of you that I didn’t even think about anything but getting away from you. It never occurred to me to prepare for what happened this morning.

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