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WNBA star Breana Stewart  is now sharing a story of  her  own in light of the #MeToo movement.
In an essay called "Me Too" on The Players' Tribune   Stewart  revealed that  she  was sexually abused as a child by a man who lived in one of the houses of  her  relatives.  She  said the man was a construction worker and smoked cigarettes but did not identify  her  abuser.
 Stewart  said  she  turned to basketball during this time because it "became a sort of safe space" for the current Seattle Storm forward.
"In some ways  I'm still the same 11-year-old who just wanted to go to practice  " Stewart  wrote. "I've never been to therapy. I didn't want to talk about it. I didn't want to relive it. It's something I've tried to tuck away as far back on the shelf as I could. But that only works to an extent. I've cried. I cry most after I tell someone who's important to me. Talking about what I went through  explaining all of it -- it guts me. I'm forced to relive it. That's when it hits that what happened is real. It wasn't just an awful nightmare. It wasn't some other life I lived at another time."
The 23-year-old said  she  told  her  parents about the abuse when  she  was 11 years old and the man was later arrested and confessed his crimes.  Stewart  said  she  wishes  she  could forget the memories of  her  experience.
"I'm angry he took advantage of me as a child. I'll never get that time back. And what memories I still have  I'll never be able to erase them. Sometimes I wish for a few more black holes "  Stewart  said.
 Breanna Stewart  said basketball became a safe space for  her  as child. (Jessica Hill/AP)
 Stewart  said  she  decided to come forward with  her  story because the movement is something bigger than  her .
 Stewart  was a basketball star for the UConn women's basketball team.  She  won the NCAA national championship four times and was given the Naismith Award for college basketball's most outstanding player on three occasions.
So far  she  has seamlessly transitioned to the WNBA and was given the Rookie of the Year award in 2016.
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Breana Stewart


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His new vampire thriller  "The Passage " published this month  is a best-seller. The unfinished manuscript sold in a bidding war to Fox 2000 for $1.75 million. And Stephen King called during Cronin's interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" to tell him that he is a fan.
 Cronin talked about vampires  his inspiration for "The Passage" and readers' reaction to his book in a recent interview.
 Cronin: It was her dare. In the fall of 2005 my daughter was 8. I was kind of wondering what to do next and she came to me and she said she thought I should write a book  in her words  "about a girl that saves the world and that it should be interesting." I think every interesting thing a man does in his life  he probably does to impress a girl  and so I wrote this book to impress my daughter.
 Cronin: The word "series" isn't quite right. I want each of these books to be a satisfying book all in itself. ... To call it a trilogy is true but not really the whole truth and not the exact truth  but there are three books all taking place in this world with this basic set of characters.
 Cronin: Oh  yeah. My office is the war room. I've got a white board and photographs and maps and every kind of thing up there.
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Justin Cronin


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The Democratic partyâs strategy for responding to  the Al Franken scandal  is now apparent: Taking up Frankenâs own hint in  his  apology statement  there will be an âEthics Committee investigation.â
Investigate what  Senate Clouseaus?  Franken  has been caught on film. When Los Angeles radio host Leeann Tweeden said that during a 2006 USO tour  Franken  used  his  position as an entertainer to rope her into kissing  him  in the guise of a rehearsal for a sketch  that was repellent enough. Franken âput his hand on the back of my head  mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth â Tweeden said  and  Franken  offered no specific alternative story  only a lame suggestion that âI donât remember the rehearsal for the skit as Leeann does.â
Is the Senate Ethics Committee going to invite Tweeden in to tell her story and try to nail down exactly what  Franken  claims happened? Is the Senate Ethics Committee going to issue an open call to any other women out there who may have similar claims about  Franken  to submit their testimony? I doubt it. The purpose of this phony investigation is to give the appearance of doing something while allowing time to pass and tempers to cool  on the way to administering some meaningless reprimand to  Franken .
 Franken  might be able to shake this off if  he  could depend on conflicting memories. But  he  canât. Because of that photo. The sex-abuse scandal is becoming  to cultural history  what Watergate was to political history. It is gigantic. It is era-defining. And among the dozens of famous people implicated in it  the  Franken  photo is the most damning and irrefutable evidence yet to emerge. Itâs a tableau of our time. It is the photo of our moment. Itâs the kind of smoking gun you couldnât use in a Law & Order episode because it would be too blatant. It will never disappear from the national consciousness.
Consider the breathtaking way each detail reinforces the horror of the others: A Hollywood celebrity who will soon be a Democratic senator is molesting a woman. While sheâs asleep. And in military gear  because sheâs traveling to support our troops. In a war zone. And  Franken  is smiling. While shamelessly posing for the photographer. How can we ever cease to be amazed and appalled by this photo? It is to the sex war what the picture of the summary execution of that Viet Cong prisoner was to the Vietnam War.
Yet as the Senate circles the wagons around  Franken   itâs liberals and Democrats who should be angry â not Republicans. To Republicans itâs Thanksgiving come early. It makes no difference to the Republican policy agenda whether  Franken  or some other generic liberal Democrat holds that seat. If  Franken  remains  Roy Mooreâs chances of victory in Alabama increase. It makes it too easy for Republicans in Alabama to say  âWait a minute  weâre supposed to end the career of Roy Moore  a legend in this state  when Democrats wonât expel  Franken ? Why should we agree to unilateral ethics enforcement?â Should Moore make it to the Senate  Democrats will be able to cast Republicans as the party of sex creeps only if they expel  Franken . Every time Mooreâs name is mentioned  the response will be  âWhat about  Al Franken ? And by the way  what about Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy?â
True  in a certain sense this isnât fair. What Moore probably did is worse than what  Franken  admitted doing. But politics isnât fair. Whataboutism and crying hypocrisy arenât very strong moral arguments  but theyâre easy to make and theyâre emotionally satisfying. And a photograph of obvious wrongdoing simply carries more salience than a verbal allegation â even if the allegation is credible and even if the behavior alleged is worse than that seen in the photo.
Democrats who just this week were saying they would no longer tolerate Bill Clintonâtype behavior can prove it. They can make a clear break with the past by saying no more sexual misbehavior will be tolerated  even by beloved party members. They could then leverage that moral clarity in 2018 to seek the votes of the married women who are wary about the liberal agenda but might be persuadable. Instead  theyâre protecting their own. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand either can position herself as Americaâs leading tribune for women victimized by sexual assault or she can support keeping  Franken  in the Senate  but not both. Her initial gambit â  his  apology isnât enough but âI expect to hear moreâ from Franken â is insufficient. What more is there for  Franken  to say now that  he  has admitted guilt and apologized? The Democrats are creating a three-word weapon with which the GOP will never stop beating them over the head: What. About. Franken.
Al Franken Gives Liberals Another Chance at Virtue
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Al Franken