Dennis: I have received so many comments of empathy and support from many of those who post here, I am overwhelmed at times. I have been posting here for a few years. I believe this particular thread has pretty much run its course. So many of those people are probably not paying attention at this point. I do appreciate your support. When I first started posting about this subject on another site, I would often minimize what I had gone through. It only happened once. There was no penetration. I would compare what I had endured with what others had suffered. A fellow survivor, Rich Green helped me to get past this. Every victim has their own path to follow. I am reminded of a story I read about Tom Fox, the past editor here at NCR. He shared that he also had been a victim of clergy abuse around the same age I was when abused. He told his brother what happened to him. His brother went to his parents. He got the support he needed. He never suffered the horrible effects.