KATLYN A persistent voice inside my head was telling me to not follow the woman who was taking me to the private room where I will wait for my partner. But there was another part of me that wanted to find out what it was like to submit to this need, the desire to have that little bite of pain that somehow felt like I deserved it and at the same time gave me escape from my head and a way to pleasure that I never knew. And, it was all because of Zurich who had introduced me to it and made me feel like this was exactly what was missing from my life. All this time I was living with this guilt that I had tried to hide or forget while telling myself that I did everything to survive, but still I could never truly get rid of it. Because there was something missing from the puzzle pieces of that