Youngest sister of three and older sister of one brother, author Sue Skilton Orrell felt her parents\' admonition to "act mature" as a restraint against normal childhood feelings.
When Orrell was raped twice a.
This default setting of denial intensified tragically within the more generalized culture of silence when she hit adolescence.
She wished she could cry out like the Florida panthers that circulated on her family\'s rural property, but obeying the admonition prevented her from doing so.
Youngest sister of three and older sister of one brother, author Sue Skilton Orrell felt her parents\' admonition to "act mature" as a restraint against normal childhood feelings