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your relatives and liked you and I wanted to
    scream for the usher to come but I was afraid o f making noise
    because it w asn’t right to make noise and I didn’t want to do
    something w rong and insult the man and he did all those
    things, many things but as i f it was one thing with no breaks or
    stops in it because he ju st curled and curved and slid all over
    with his arms everywhere and his mouth all over and his hands
    everywhere and keeping me in the seat without stopping, and
    he kept whispering and he hurt me and I didn’t know what to
    do except that grow n-ups don’t cry or make noise and he
    pushed his hands in me and I didn’t know what to do, except
    he was hurting me, and he slumped more over me and in m y
    chest and kept pressing me and then he slumped again and
    shaked and stopped pressing so hard and I pulled m yself aw ay
    from him grabbing on me and I ran and I ran all the w ay up the
    aisle in the dark and I found the usher w ho was all the w ay in
    the back and I said the man was bothering me but I was afraid
    to say what he did and the usher didn’t say anything or do

    anything so I asked if I could sit somewhere else please and
    could he keep the man from bothering me please because I
    knew you weren’t supposed to talk in the movies and the usher
    could make you stop and he just stared at me and he took me
    somewhere else with his flashlight and I sat there making my
    shirt right and my pants right but I couldn’t make them right
    and wiping my hand dry and I sat there looking all around in
    the dark and there wasn’t enough light from the movie for me
    to see where the man was and I couldn’t look at the movie
    because I kept looking for the man but I was afraid that if he
    saw me looking for him he would think I was wanting him to
    come and I kept trying to see where he was in the dark and i f he
    was going to try to talk to me more and the movie kept going
    on but I was afraid to watch it because maybe the man would
    come and I knew I couldn’t find my mother because it wasn’t
    time to meet her yet and I had to stay in the movies or I didn’t
    have anywhere to go and then the man came and I was going
    to scream or hit him or shout but I was afraid to because I was
    never allowed to hit adults, no such thing could ever happen,
    and he looked at me and he stared and he walked by and down
    the aisle and I was afraid he would come back and I got up and I
    ran, I ran out, I ran into the street, into the cars, into the hot air,
    into the light, it was like running into a wall o f heat and I
    couldn’t breathe, and I ran to the department store and once
    when I was a little child I had gotten lost in a department store
    and I was lost from m y mother a long time and someone took
    me to the manager because I was crying and lost and scared
    and they announced over the loudspeaker for m y mother to
    come find me and she came and this was the first time I was
    ever so scared since then but I w ouldn’t cry or make noise
    because I didn’t want the man to find me so I kept running and
    saying I needed the manager and I needed m y mother and it
    was an emergency but I kept as quiet as I could and I couldn’t
    breathe so they called her on the loudspeaker and then when

    she came I shook and cried and I tried to tell her and she said,
    did anything happen, and I kept saying yes and I kept trying to
    say each thing that happened and then we were on the bus and I
    kept crying but I w asn’t supposed to talk because people could
    hear and it was something bad, and then we got home and I
    said how I didn’t want the man to sit next to me and I didn’t
    know how to tell him to go away because he was an adult and I
    didn’t mean to do something w rong but I didn’t know how to
    tell the man not to rub because I didn’t even know what it was
    or if it was a mistake because maybe he was making a mistake
    because it was dark and maybe he thought I was someone else
    that he knew or it was some