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The disclosure of sexual abuse can often have a huge impact on family life. I came to you at my lowest ebb when my mind was just a tangled web. You reached out and touched my very soul in a warm attempt to make me whole. You did not judge me as I feared, you acknowledged that my soul was smeared. The knowledge that I could at last talk free was a major turning point for me.

Chicago-land coverage of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. In a democracy, patriots protest when government goes wrong, a sign declared last night in Federal Plaza where fired-up citizens did just that.