Amy

I was really...

fortunate in the timing of this because I was in my last semester of high school and by this time I had things planned.

I was gonna go on a European trip with our band and orchestra and I was gonna come home and work for the summer and then go to Ohio for school.

So I had the next things to work toward and be excited about and not just to mention like finals and the end of school and all that.

So

This relationship just kind of fizzled out.

Nothing dramatic happened.

There was no fight or no weird pressure or anything.

It was just kind of like, I think we were both moving on in our lives.

So how lucky for me that that is the way that it ended up because I was able to kind of put things in a box and be able to like pull that box out when I wanted to feel excited and put it back and not really think much of it.

I mean, I was thrilled just to have attention.

Like it was just a different time.

I mean, it wasn't that long ago, but it just seemed like people wouldn't have maybe called that an abuse of power.

I don't, maybe they would have, but it feels like it would have been just much more of a slap on the wrist and not like what it would be today.

And that,

This is truly an abuse of power and it's completely wrong.

Yeah, for sure.

I would say like the start of that was the comments about wanting to take me to prom.

I feel like that was a thing that planted the seed of even though I could draw on this experience for years after that as an exciting one, that seed of it started to grow.

And certainly when Me Too kind of blew up, the framing changed as society was more open to hearing about