Vegan German Shepherd

Nine months ago, my ten-year-old, long hair German Shepherd name Nel, started to lose her fur very suddenly and very rapidly. The fur on her tail thinned to the point where the tip of her naked tail was exposed. All over her back she had visible, what we thought "hot flashes" that made her fur look uneven and generally unhealthy. She was current on anti-flea applications, so blaming dermatitis caused by flea-allergy, was out of...

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Stuck In Abusive Relationship: How I Freed Myself Through Forgiveness

Before I met my husband, I found myself living with a guy who was abusive towards me. I was in my early thirties then, so I should have known better than continuing to stay in such destructive relationship.  But it felt like it wasn't really up to me. My resistance towards having to constantly feel trapped, powerless, and hopeless was not doing me any good. For almost two years, I felt consumed by the hatred, the...

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Overcoming Rape

I was fifteen when I was raped. My virginity was taken by force by a twenty-year-old guy I had a crush on. He did not seem to understand words like: "Stop it! You're hurting me! Get off of me!" My frantic gestures designed to discourage the perpetrator from violating not just my body, but also my mind and my spirit altogether, were not effective. In less than few minutes I was reduced to nothing more than a piece of meat. My natural,...

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