It did happen. But the particular events described in the piece do not bother me. I look back on them and just sort of go "Eww". There were other things though that did bother me, but as cliched as it will sound, I only remember parts of them. If the piece has a moral, I guess it's that we don't have to let things like this define us.
You're a good writer. I'm sorry this happened to you, if it did.
It did happen. But the particular events described in the piece do not bother me. I look back on them and just sort of go "Eww". There were other things though that did bother me, but as cliched as it will sound, I only remember parts of them. If the piece has a moral, I guess it's that we don't have to let things like this define us.