Johnnie

I thought if I just loved him enough, he wouldn’t want to hurt me.

 

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Johnnie asked that her Finding Our Voices portrait be taken in the Brewer Library, because it is her restful place, and also because the building used to house the police station, and it is in this spot, when she was in her early 20s, that police photographed her face after her boyfriend smashed it with a landline phone.