Jill began staking out cafés, where she would snatch sandwiches and run. That’s when the enormity of being homeless really hit.” “I spent all my money at an arcade on 'Pacman' and 'Space Invaders.' Then I realized that I had no money for food.

When the friend’s parents turned her away, Jill became homeless. With only $100 in her pocket, Jill hitchhiked to Cincinnati to live with a friend. She was informed that there was no room for her and she would have to find a new place to live. Later, the boyfriend decided that little Jill was an exciting fringe benefit and continued to rape her with her mother’s full knowledge and consent.Īt the end of 9th grade, Jill’s parents moved to a new house. She told him it was a punishment, and to make it hurt. Enraged, her mother offered the boyfriend the opportunity to penetrate her daughter. Jill was raped for the first time at 5 years old when she wandered unknowingly into a bedroom during a sex act between her mother and her mother’s boyfriend. But secrets seethed beneath the family’s respectable exterior. Jill was born in New Hampshire during the '60s, the daughter of a prominent, middle-class family with ties to the local school board. It is a lesson of redemption and courage, second chances and taking chances. Her story of brutal rape, of slavery, of dungeons, of '50 Shades of Grey' bondage gone horribly awry, was so dark and harrowing that one wondered how she had even survived, much less summoned the strength to stand before us.Īs I came to know her over the years, to enjoy her dry sense of humor, her keen intelligence, her blunt manner of speaking that forces you to take off every mask, I learned the other side of her story too. Standing behind a podium ironically flanked by crosses, the tall redhead delivered a presentation so spellbinding that the audience seemed to breathe and gasp in unison. I met Jill Brenneman in 2011 at a conference for sex workers in Asheville, North Carolina.

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