Editor’s Note: Philanthropy Women is proud to announce Real Women, a new fiction series by author M. A. Sheehan, to help our audience immerse in fictional works that relate to women’s experiences. The first story in the series explores a fictional pros and cons list of a sexual assault survivor.

Reasons Not to Share Being Sexually Assaulted:
1. Never have to associate self with his name, his difficult identity, and be a target for his fans to ravage.
2. It almost always looks bad to reveal something negative about someone after they have died.
3. Most people will blame me, because it’s inevitably the woman’s fault.
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