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While we were talking, I was so tired that I lay on the bed and fell asleep.
He was on top of me, Lakshmi recalls in the essay.
I asked, What are you doing?
He said, It will only hurt for a while.
just dont do this, I screamed.
Lakshmi says she didnt tell anyone about the assault.
Lakshmi says she didnt report the rape because she was ashamed and internalized her fear.
I didnt report it.
Not to my mother, not to my friends and certainly not to the police.
Some say a man shouldnt pay a price for an act he committed as a teenager, Lakshmi wrote.
