I was 14, he was in his 30s - I didn't realise he'd groomed me

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I was 14, he was in his 30s - I didn't realise he'd groomed me
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He bought me a hot chocolate covered in cream and marshmallows and told me I was ‘special'.

Paul* told me he imagined I’d be ‘cheeky’ atSo even though I thought it was an odd request at the time, I changed into my school uniform at his apartment – despite it being a weekend.

I first met Paul in a public park during the summer in the early 2000s. It happened by chance – or at least I thought it had – and we got chatting to one another. The age gap hadn’t even crossed my mind either, so we exchanged numbers. Thinking back, he wasn’t a big texter and would generally call to coordinate meeting up.

A few weeks after meeting, we went to a coffee shop. He bought me a hot chocolate covered in cream and marshmallows and told me I was ‘special’. Just thinking about this now makes me feel dirty and upset. I hadn’t been ‘special’ or ‘different’ at all. It was him who had been different – in the worst possible way

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