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Chapter 18

Years passed.

I became vice president of strategic partnerships.

Then chief operating officer.

I learned to walk into hotel restaurants without scanning the door.

Mostly.

I still flinched when phones buzzed too many times.

Healing is not a straight road.

It is a hallway where some doors still make noise.

But I kept walking.

I mentored younger women at work.

When one told me her boyfriend hated when she traveled for conferences, I did not say, “I’m sure he means well.”

I said, “Does his love make your world bigger or smaller?”

She stared at me.

May you like

Then started crying.

Sometimes the right question opens the locked room.

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