From the Editors November 17, 1997 ISSUE

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The Editors

One talk-show host has described this as the "Age of the Victim." And when we counted three page-one articles in a major daily newspaper on victims of various situations, we decided to challenge the oft-repeated statement that once people have been victimized, it can scar their lives permanently. How cruel such predictions seem to us—perhaps to you, too!

"No need to be a victim" explains why even a traumatic event doesn't have to leave permanent marks. And "The ladder out of despair" gives a practical example of how a woman prayed after leaving an abusive marriage.

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