"I Feel Like I'm In Chains" Imagine a life marked by childhood sexual abuse. Imagine you find yourself out of work, living in a country where welfare and food banks don’t exist. Imagine you are a single mother and your baby needs medicine. You tell yourself you will just do it one time. After all, you have experienced that kind of exploitation before-only no one paid you for it. Imagine thirteen years later you are still there-being degraded and humiliated day after day to keep yourself and your children alive-and you can’t see a way out. Imagine that is a true story. Because it is. Now imagine that person is your sister, mother, friend. Imagine there was something you could do to help her, to bridge the gap between slavery and freedom. Would you do it? With her permission I am sharing just a few details about our friend’s life. Everything I have said so far is her daily reality. Or at least it was. At the end of April we took a leap to help her make the jump to freedo...
