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Plan to go back to school in Jan 2021 and hoping to relocate for my safety but have no money I&#8217;ve been asking for donations but not enough to get back on my feet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nNotice: The names in this story are fictitious to protect the request for anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survivor Sister Val Johnson speaks out breaking her silence about domestic violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-break-your-silence","category-sister-survivors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Val Johnson Survivor Sister Story<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Survivor Sister Val Johnson speaks out breaking their silence about domestic violence telling their story and experience dealing with domestic violence directly.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=15210\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Val Johnson Breaks the Silence Against Domestic Violence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Val Johnson Breaks the Silence Against Domestic Violence. 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