Violence and rape

Question 1

“In the end, I ran.

Answer 1

I ran because I was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me”

Question 2

“For the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace.

Answer 2

I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in the corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to this… My body was broken but I felt healed.”

Question 3

“I’ll take

Answer 3

a thousand bullets before I let this indecency take place”

Question 4

“it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned,

Answer 4

about how you can bury it. Because the past claws it’s way out. Looking back now, I realise I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”