I recently had a disturbing conversation with a friend named Lucy*. Lucy and I have a strange and tenuous connection. We chat online and have only done so a few times. We don’t know each other’s last names. We are veritable strangers. So it was odd when one morning when I woke up and saw a message from her asking for my help. She told me a guy did something bad to her. And that she might need the help of the police. She wanted someone to talk to and, as you will learn below, she had some reasons for choosing me.
What happened to her is terrible and private and humiliating. I suppose one of the reasons she came to me is because we are so disconnected–such strangers to each other–that she could tell me something she could not share with her close circle in her home town. Below is this story. Continue reading “A Violation”