For years, Meredith Maran believed her dad molested her. She talks about "recovered memory," and finding the truth.
In 2007, I was out for a walk with someone I wasn't even that close to. She asked me if I'd ever done anything I was ashamed of and had never forgiven myself for.
Without hesitation I said, yeah, when I was in my 30s I accused my father of molesting me, and then I realized it wasn't true.
She stopped walking and stood still, just staring at me and she said, "The same exact thing happened to me."
When I came home from that hike I started calling people I had known back then and speaking to some of the therapists I had seen during that period.
With the exception of my ex-lover, every other person I talked to who had accused her father in the '80s and early '90s now believed she had been wrong. Being a journalist, you realize there's a story there...
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