“I’m not sure I could live with myself if her career were to become collateral to my mistakes”ByHelena Bala
“As soon as we were alone, his demeanor completely changed. He became rougher, scarier.”ByHelena Bala
“It didn’t take long for him to find me. He told me he was 23. I told him the truth—that I was 15.”ByHelena Bala
“I thought, maybe I shouldn’t have had anything to drink, or I should’ve said no—I didn’t say no.”ByHelena Bala
A forced marriage: “I met him on Monday. On Wednesday, we were engaged. On Friday, he went back to America.”ByHelena Bala
“I had a good job, a loving family, and a white picket fence. This is how I lost it all”ByHelena Bala
“Four months after my mom died, my dad married a new woman. In December, she gave birth to their son.”ByHelena Bala
