There are 525, 600 minutes in a non-leap year. That makes 31, 536, 000 seconds in every year. So: 31, 536, 000 divided by 248, 300 comes to one sexual assault every 127 seconds, or about one every two minutes.

In 2006, Dustin Brookshire was raped by a former boyfriend. In the months that followed, he began writing as a means of coping with the psychological aftermath. The result is To the One Who Raped Me, a bold debut chapbook of taboo truths and the too-often unspoken that chronicles Dustin's journey from victim to survivor.

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