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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/DragonmamaGlasgow on 2023-08-23 13:18:24.

So as the title says 14 years ago (when I was 16) I was sexually assaulted by someone I went to school with. I didn’t tell anyone until I met my now husband.

I like to think I have moved on the best I am ever going to. I don’t go back to the location that it happened but it no longer rules my life.

The person who did this to me has the same name as my Grandad and its been my boy name since I was 14 years old.

My grandad is an amazing man. He met my nanny when she was a 19 year old single mum in Ireland with a 3 year old. He adopted my dad without blinking an eye, gave my dad his name and raised him as his own and he was only 17 when they met. He has never treated my dad or me any different from anyone biologically related to him and he is one of the good ones. I truly truly admire him.

So my boy will be named Daniel. Not after the boy who tried to tear my life apart but for the man who showed me how we can put lives together