Dear Sadie,

I helped a girl last night. Before i went to work. She's a survivor like us... and she needs help real bad. She wanted to commit suicide last night. But i manage to talk her out of it.. gave her some sense of hope, some how.

She's in a bad situation, but she lives so faraway and I feel so helpless that I can't do anything else but talk to her, and help her get through the day... I don't know what else I can do for her other than tell her to find a way out, give her some numbers...

But she's made it through the night alive, and that's all I can ask for i guess. She needs to take it one day at a time I know what that is like... it's what I've been doing for the last three years....

Hopefully, she can gain enough confidence to get herself out... I have faith that in time, she will learn that she is worth so much more than what she's been lead to believe. And that she deserves so much more in life than beatings and rape.

I hope I can help her find the confidence she needs to help herself... but i can only be an ear to listen, and a shoulder to cry on...

I hope you are proud of me Sadie... if it wasn't for you, i think I'd be hurting just as much right now... even though it has been so long since we got out...

Love, Lindsay