American Informative Speech

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At the moment, I don’t know if I can articulate what I am hoping to learn or gain. I am grateful that you were interested in my email but honestly a flood of what if's came upon me as I was reading your message. Here is where I stand as of now-

When that Jackie Fox piece came out, I started to write something in response to it. I tried, but it was just too much to grasp at the time. So many things came up for me that I never dealt with as a teenager. My teenage self-did not know what happened was wrong. All I knew was I didn’t get raped. How could he get in trouble? He just drove me around and didn’t rape me. My sex education at that time was 1) Don’t get pregnant 2) Don’t get raped. There was nothing about these gray areas and when you

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