I know everyone is focused on the present disasters and not thinking of the past, but I also know I’m not alone. I was a sixteen year old girl who was #groomed and #abused by an older man I met online in the #90s. If you were as well, please reach out.

I want to bring attention to #earlygenx people who were victimized online prior to the recognition of the #metoo movement. We were #beforemetoo, but we still matter. My abuser was 21, I was 16. I kept it a secret from my parents, who knew nothing about what the internet was capable of. #wematter

Those of us who were too young to have access to an unbridled, unregulated internet, but were in chat rooms in our early teens: how are you? Because I still think about the 21-year-old who flew across the country to sleep with me when I was 16. He's a father to a daughter now. #genx #metoo #letstalk