The word "abuse" seems to imply victimization and has always made me uncomfortable in this instance. I never called it sexual abuse, because it felt like an overly dramatic Oprah-ization of what happened. Over the years, I have called it an "inappropriate relationship." I have called it "an incident with an older man." Most frequently, I have called it "the thing that happened that summer." As in - remember the thing that happened that summer? Names and identifying details have been changed.
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