I should have been around 7 years, perhaps 8 or 9, I don’t really remember. But I recall the incidents like it happened yesterday. My first encounter with everything close to sex was with family. He was about 3 years older than I was. So if I was 7, he was 10. On our usual hide and seek plays with my other cousins, he would make sure he hid somewhere where only I could find him, and when I did, he would do things to me. I wasn’t exactly sure what was going on, and I don’t remember caring about it either so it continued, until my family moved to a different location. Occasionally he and my other cousins will come to visit us. One afternoon, as we played the usual hide and seek game, when the other kids had gone in hiding, my mother found us in the kids’ room. He had his back on the bed, and I was sitting on him. I was laughing hysterically. My mother immediately pulled me up. I could sense the fear in her eyes. She told me she was going to tell my father abo...
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