Time To Choose A Path

  How as a parent, do you respond to your child when they endure something like this? That's got to be extremely hard to come to terms with.  I of course never thought of it in that aspect, until I became a parent myself. As a father to a daughter, there is no real comfortable way to approach it. That's your daughter, that some grown man disrespected and used.  But as a mother? I feel like I would have been right by my daughters side, crying every tear, through every nightmare. Until she pushed me away or asked me to leave. I would have done research and done anything I could, to make her life a little easier as she struggled with these internal demons.  I would have noticed frequent trips to the bathroom immediately following meals, the fact that she always was in her room when she was at home.  I admit, the few times my mom and I talked about it, it was incredibly awkward, but like I said...we didn't have the relationship most did, or that I wished we had.  I just felt that pretending it didn't happen and not talking about it, was definitely not the way to approach it.  Is there any real way to take the awkwardness out of the situation and be there for them?
  After I graduated high school, I originally wanted to attend nursing school at the University of Northern Colorado.  I attended orientation and decided it was not for me.  I then decided to pursue EMT-B.  The first day of class was CPR training.  I had partnered up with a girl I had just met.  Then this guy walked in, I remember thinking instantly how good looking he was and his eyes captured me from the start.  But that's as far as it went, as I was in a relationship at the time.  After my second relationship failed, I decided at that point all I could do was get myself better.  Focusing on myself and finishing EMT school was what I needed to focus on. 
  I started hanging out with friends again, going out and having a good time.  One of my best friends at the time attended college out of state, but was home for spring break.  I decided to take her out with a group of friends from EMT school.  We went out, had a great night, and I ended up hitting it off with the guy who had the striking eyes!  The one who had been in EMT school with us all along.  He kissed me for the first time that night, and I was never the same from that day on!