Prayer for Persimmons and Stories
The first story came a few months ago from a close friend. She and I were having dinner together, and as it often happens, our conversation ranged around a number of topics—what we’d been reading, politics, where we’d been and who we’d seen, our families. The Me Too movement was just springing up, and our talk turned to that. Suddenly my friend was telling me about her experience of being raped by a blind date in college fifty-odd years ago. I had not seen that coming. I did