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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1996)
&***% w88*”! x> §^ CrU X X %§»# In the emotional race to deal with the feelings family and friends have when someone close to them is raped, it is most often the victim who is left behind. ?r Jones froze, No screams No tsars no e>caoe It had oniv taken seconds tor him to unzip ms nano and pull them )fl. The door to his apartment closed. He kissed her repeatedly Jones was at raid, too atraid to react. She said no and tried to push him away pur ne did not listen. He took her to ms bedroom ana sat editor’s words isa true siorv reported over the tast lour months a contain' nature ina* ina> he oftensive to vonie readers. her on his bed reaching under ner skirt and pulling off a prana-new pair 01 unaerwea: She didn’t try to sit up when he pushed her down Alone, in the dark of hts bedroom, he began to take her Before he finished, he gotfup to look for a condom — no doubt a “favor' in his mind. Jones mind raced, wondering if she should scream, if she should run. if she should tight When he left the room, she got off the bed and gathered her things, bumping into him as she tned to slip out the door. He apologized for not finding a condom. In an effort to get awa\. Jones said it was OK, wished him a good night and hurried back to her apartment down the hall For him. he wanted it and she didn't tight. There was nothing wrong For most of her friends and family, she duln t want it but didn't fight. There was nothing wrong For ner. a Iriendly encounter with a neighbor turned into a dreadful nightmare from which .-.he wilf never fuliy wake And mere w'as nothing right about it fhere arc two gins sitting togetner: one is twice as old as the other, yet thev have grown dependent on one another The\ talk about the smaller, inconsequential things of 1 ite Whv the older one doesn't eat the crown on her namouraers Wnv the vounger one speaks in a oareiv audihie voice. Why they ooth ieei the need to be togetner now . w hen they did not know each other in May. only three short months ago Jones i y > vears ole. a decade more than the child she watches durine the da- She is a sonnomore dance m£u,>r at the Lmversitv ot Nenraska-concoir. a good s vears turine- m ne^ stuoie-. man the chile Jones is ui v, icum oi a<.uuairtuiner rape, sometnine sue pravs tne ennu wil, nev er exnericn. Sne ora's mu: ne: guiaanev \. nein tne child team m make tne right decisions in me mm siiuanu one ora vs me eniic wn- neve* o ?n. one oui Oi every 10m coueee women wrio exueneucc suci: a ui Sne prays inc cmiu wn: w.h soraeaav oc one ot trie women who are raped every eignt minutes in tne Unitec via, Jones nravs tne child wall not crow un to he ne The two are in .tone anarirpen; an apparently cozy, loving nome. but jones no longer connects tnose iecnnes with tms plac. Sne warns to move irom the apartment. Has to move. She cannot he aione there; her mind won’t alim; it. “I don’t have a nome now. sne says iater. "It can't oe home to me. it just doesn't feel like n anymore. The girl, now a dear friend to Jones, allows her to he in the apartment and not be alone. Ever. The girl knows Jones wants to move, but she wants to know why. Jones does not lie; she says she's been having problems with her neighbor. “What kind of problems?” the girl asks.