Miranda

And I had done that ever since I was two.

I went to University of Central Oklahoma, which is about an hour and a half away from where I grew up and where all of my family lives.

I did that intentionally because I was pretty tired of my family life and I was really excited to go to school far away.

I would have gone out of state had we had the money or the ability to go out of state.

My high school was relatively small, so I knew where everyone was going to college.

And no one really that I knew went to this school, so I was really alone for the first time ever in my life.

I did a lot of theater when I was in high school.

It was really what I loved and what I was incredibly passionate about.

When I went to college, I didn't quite know what I wanted to do, but I didn't have the intention of studying theater.

I decided to study theater my second semester of school.

Cato, who was the person that abused me, was the first person in the department that I met at all.

When I met him, it was at the end of my first semester of freshman year before I had any friends.

I had just started partying for the first time ever.

I kind of went crazy.

It was the first time I'd ever been drunk and smoked weed in my life.

So I had experienced a lot of firsts and didn't have a lot of close friends or any family.

And so I think he had a really good opportunity to paint himself in whatever light he really wanted to.

He is a very manipulative person and seemed incredibly trusting.

I distinctly remember in my first meeting with him talking more about myself than the department or the program or what I needed to do to get into the department or what classes I would take.

Once he met me and found out that I was alone and