Mary (not her real name)

And I'm fighting.

And I felt that the system didn't back me.

I felt the system was geared towards him every step of the way.

And I hope that the powers that be, like that the government can finally say,

we'll have an inquiry into how this abuse litany of decades carried on and who should be held accountable.

We've overcome it because obviously we're still sitting here together.

We're in our 50s now.

We're nearly 60.

Even through arguments, periods of times like when you went to England, we still kept in touch because we wouldn't let him win.

Because if we fell out then, after the experience that we went through...

I felt he would have won.

Now, that's not the reason that I'm friends with Anne.

I'm friends with Anne because I love her and because of what we've gone through together.

And I think she's the only other person that can understand me totally.

Flaws and all.

So we accept each other and get emotional and have cereal.

I don't normally say that to your face.

Are we rarely sentimental?

The music is composed and performed by me, Alma Kelleher.

With Steve Carrolyn on guitars.