Lacy Crawford was told 'rape stories are a dime a dozen.' She wrote hers anyway

Decades had passed since Lacy Crawford really thought about the night it happened. She lived on the other side of the country now, in a home outside San Diego with palm trees outside her bedroom window. She was in her 40s, married, with three young boys. She had put both physical and emotional distance between herself and St. Paul's, the elite New Hampshire boarding school she attended as a teenager.

But when she started to probe her memory for details of what transpired on the 2,000-acre campus in the fall of 1990, she vomited. Her children asked what was wrong, and she told them she had the stomach flu. They were too young for Crawford to explain that she was working on a memoir about how, when she was 15, two senior boys summoned her to a dorm room and sexually assaulted her.

In "Notes on a Silencing," out now, Crawford describes being held down on a bed by the seniors as their genitals "penetrated her throat past the pharynx." As a result of the assault - which the young men boasted about