"Once when I was 11, I was so sick my grandma kept me home from school. I had a fever of 101.3 and I was throwing up, so my grandma took me to the doctor. The doctor told me and my grandma after some tests that I had an STD. The look on my grandma’s face told me that, whatever it was, it was bad. Back then, I didn’t have a cell phone to Google it, so I waited until I was better and went to school to ask my teacher what it was. She told me it meant I had a disease from sex and

We are going down the list of safe house programs, trying to place a woman who has reached out to us for help. She is physically disabled and severely traumatized. We have stopped counting the programs that have said “no,” and are just praying the next one will say “yes.” They cannot accommodate her wheelchair. They do not have an interpreter. They are not equipped to handle her complex psychiatric needs. Yet we keep calling, praying the next one will say “yes.” This is a com