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"He did cross the line, and I became a victim of what we now know as date rape. Thirty years ago that's really not what it was called. Since I did go into the bedroom with the guy, I blamed myself for many years..."
Carrie prostituted herself for drugs. As a registered nurse, educated and articulate, she never expected to go so low.
"By the time I was in puberty I had one foot in the homosexual world, one in the heterosexual world, and I didn’t know how I got there."
People disappear all the time and nobody would have ever known what happened to them. It was my intent to kill them for what they had done to me.
I made a choice. That day a healing process started in my life. Now I can look back and say, “Wow.
She noticed the holes in my face. She was like; “Oh, you’ve got a lip ring?” I said; “Yeah, I had to take them out to get a job, you know, working for the man.”
... when I would come into the group everyone would stop laughing, and leave. I’m not saying that for pity. It’s just the way it was.
"I was mad at my dad for destroying my family. He had taught me homosexual behavior was a sin. He had instilled in me that homosexuality was wrong, and suddenly he was trying to get me to justify it."