
Ep. 100 Robin Schepper
QWERTY: A Podcast for Writers on How to Live the Writing Life
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How to Report a Sexual Assault
I found that particularly stunning the idea of reporting on one's own life but particularly in this arena when there's so much mist around it. When writing a memoir from your emotions and your memories I decided that I needed to necessarily fact check but check with others if I was missing something. The process when I reported my sexual assault decades later I was actually the school sent out a lawyer and I was interviewed for four or five hours about what had happened, she kept asking who else did you tell and so I called somebody I knew in high school who then told me about other stories that I didn't remember. She explained how hypocatmas often keeps you from remembering things that are too horrible
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