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    My Time with Biden’s Senate Office

    “As flies to wanton boys, are we to the Gods; they kill us for their
    sport.” William Shakespeare

    I am not a “snowflake.” I like to be touched, a lot. I am an


    affectionate person. However, I like to decide who touches me
    and when. I did not understand or have the words back then to
    describe how I felt, but only sensed power moves and body
    language that I did not like. There was not yet the framework as
    there is now.

    I did not like Joe Biden’s hand on me not for the reasons you
    think, it is because I am the alpha in the room too. Again, I like
    to be the one who chooses who enters my space and in what
    way.

    We are sexual beings and we are all trying to figure out how to
    express this aspect of ourselves at work and home lives, it is a
    journey our society is on right now. But this is not only a story
    about sexual misconduct; it is a story about abuse of power. It is
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