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#412819 - 10/11/12 04:26 PM
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#412822 - 10/11/12 04:44 PM
Re: My testimony was a DISASTER
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I love you anyway. And probably not as bad as you think.
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#412826 - 10/11/12 05:13 PM
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#412828 - 10/11/12 05:16 PM
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#412829 - 10/11/12 05:16 PM
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#412835 - 10/11/12 05:45 PM
Re: My testimony was a DISASTER
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Gary - i read your blog. the best i can offer is a familiar phrase - IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT!
sounds like the deck was stacked against you and you were set up for a situation in which few seasoned professionals woul have been able to excel.
two reasons for hope = perhaps the rep will read your written testimony - which may have more impact than if he had been there = and is very well written, i might add. and - perhaps your obvious discomfort and insecurity in speaking will have provided a visual illustration of the affects of CSA upon you -even all this time later.
please don't blame yourself. you did the best you coud under the circumstances.
Lee
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They have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me.
Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long.
But the Lord is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.
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#412842 - 10/11/12 07:38 PM
Re: My testimony was a DISASTER
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As usual, Lee and I are one on this, Gary. I'll add that contacting some sympathetic media and/or sympathetic committee members with your written testimony might remain an option. Mention you'd like it officially entered into the record.
And I'll second the idea of the discomfort/insecurity being an obvious illustration of CSA effects, a point you could make to anyone in a cover letter.
{{{{{{{{{{Gary}}}}}}}}}}
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#412849 - 10/11/12 09:06 PM
Re: My testimony was a DISASTER
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Gary,
Simply put: Just your being there was a kick in the nuts to the pedophiles in Indiana who want to destroy children. Don't dispair man, you did great!
Jude
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#412855 - 10/11/12 10:26 PM
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