I Can't Bring Myself to Let Anyone Touch Me

She had often thought of what the parametic had done as administering troma instead of treatment, and now she found herself part ating in what she could only describe as the traumatic admin preceding her day in court. The detective also took screen shots of the message exchanged with her colleague, who then also became a witness. I can't bring myself to let anyone touch me, the message said. At that moment, her boy friend becomes a witness. She was first victim, this news person, this intelligent young lady, whose experience of the criminal legal system would prove as dissociating and a stabilizing as the instigating incident. There was no conviction for which there was no conviction.