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  Dry Your Wings and Fly My name is Oscar Crawford. I am alive in the eighth decade of my life, and I am on a mission. Actually, I have two. The first is to prevent as many bees as I can from drowning in swimming pools. The second is to help as many women as I can heal from the effects of childhood sexual and domestic trauma. Every summer, you can find me rescuing bees struggling to escape death in chlorinated water. And for more than 30 years, I have worked diligently and consistently with women carrying wounds inflicted upon them when they were children. To both, I am committed. According to U.S. child protective services data cited by RAINN, at least 56,575 children are sexually abused in a single year. That number is staggering. Yet it represents only abuse that becomes known to authorities, is reported, investigated, and determined likely to have occurred among children ages 0–17. And there is something those numbers cannot tell us. They cannot count every child who never told...