I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Chapter Summary & Analysis - Part 4, 'I never saw him before.' Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Strangers: Maureen Brady, Chiggers; Mary Berger, Summer Vacation/Fifty Years Ago; Hummy, A Totally White World; Jean Alexander, Letter to a Soldier, and Jennifer Meyer, Crossing the Fence Summary

Part 4, 'I never saw him before.' Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Strangers: Maureen Brady, Chiggers; Mary Berger, Summer Vacation/Fifty Years Ago; Hummy, A Totally White World; Jean Alexander, Letter to a Soldier, and Jennifer Meyer, Crossing the Fence Summary and Analysis

Maureen Brady found healing in writing. In Chiggers, Maureen tells the story of a girl named Ginny and the summer she, her brother, and a male friend would hang out in a treehouse. One afternoon, Ginny went to the treehouse where she was supposed to help the boys build a new couch. A man was standing under the tree. Ginny thought the man might be the owner of the lot where their treehouse was, so she stopped to talk to him. The man convinced Ginny to sit under the tree with her where he proceeded to run his hand over her thigh. The man talked nicely to Ginny and made her feel as though he might cry if she told him to stop. From that day on, Ginny would not go to the treehouse alone. The next contributor, Mary Berger, was born in the early-twenties. In the poem,...
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