That doesn't make me not want to read it, you understand. LOL--phew.

"One of the evils of a system of oppression is that it may damage people in ways that cannot always be undone." --yeah, I feel like that's relevant for my story too, but I also fear I may be claiming things for the story that it doesn't deliver, that I'm so far gone in my own catharsis that I'm not realizing how little of it is accessible to anyone else.