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Part 1, 'I had thought it was over.' Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Fathers: Jude Brister, The Window's Netting; Maggie Hoyal, These Are the Things I Remember; and Yarrow Morgan, from Remember

• The book was created by Ellen Bass and Louise Thornton after a writer's workshop.

• "I Never Told Anyone" gives women a voice to tell their stories as survivors of sexual abuse.
• Jude Brister wrote a fictional account of her abuse at the hands of her father entitled "Window's Netting."

• Her father began to abuse her when she was four years old. He repeatedly molested her in a tent when she was 11 years old.

• She later discovered there was a long history of sexual abuse on her father's side of the family, including her two stepsisters.
• Maggie Hoyal's memories of her sexual abuse came out in a writer's workshop, where she created the story "These Are the...

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