A Flicker of Happiness

Please read this before reading the post.
I read the first paragraph, the quote and I felt happy and immediately posted without reading the rest of the article.
You see when I was 7, I was molested. I have felt guilty ever since then because I thought it was m fault. i did not scream. I did not cry. I never told anybody. I just felt guilty.
I am too tired to go into details, but that will definitely be my next post.
Basically, reading that children are not immediately traumatized because they don’t understand, gave me a reason why I did nothing about being molested by a teenage boy. I felt no guilt. That was the first time since I was seven that I felt that way. Imagine living from 7-15, almost everything tainted with your guilt. And one little quote gives you genuine happiness.
In conclusion, I read the rest of the post. And no, I am just confused. And so I realized that I had to put what happened down and let you guys please try to explain to me whose fault it was.
Me or my molester?

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