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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 627823" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Did anyone know Maya had been raped at the age of seven, and did not speak again until 13? </p><p>That she had been a cabaret dancer? That she was raised by her grandmother? That she became pregnant at 16? That she was savagely beaten by a man she was dating? That her mother crashed in and rescued her, nursed her back to health, and then sent her off with two huge man friends of hers to "get" the man who did it?</p><p></p><p>Yet, with all those things that happened, with everything she had against her, she became a woman strong and together enough to show the rest of us how to do that, how to think about life in a new and strengthening way.</p><p></p><p>Maya said, in an interview, that she found her strength, found the courage to rise, from an exercise in which she was made to say, "God loves me.", until suddenly, she got it. That there was a loving and limitless Force out there somewhere who knew her to her bones and loved HER, specifically and individually and forever.</p><p></p><p>From that, so Maya said, she understood that she was here on purpose, that she had nothing to fear.</p><p></p><p>It was an amazing interview.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 627823, member: 17461"] Did anyone know Maya had been raped at the age of seven, and did not speak again until 13? That she had been a cabaret dancer? That she was raised by her grandmother? That she became pregnant at 16? That she was savagely beaten by a man she was dating? That her mother crashed in and rescued her, nursed her back to health, and then sent her off with two huge man friends of hers to "get" the man who did it? Yet, with all those things that happened, with everything she had against her, she became a woman strong and together enough to show the rest of us how to do that, how to think about life in a new and strengthening way. Maya said, in an interview, that she found her strength, found the courage to rise, from an exercise in which she was made to say, "God loves me.", until suddenly, she got it. That there was a loving and limitless Force out there somewhere who knew her to her bones and loved HER, specifically and individually and forever. From that, so Maya said, she understood that she was here on purpose, that she had nothing to fear. It was an amazing interview. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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