"For some people, they were just ... always there.
And that was Rory."
Aurora "Rory" Marquez was a teenager with stars in her eyes and a book full of songs in her pocket when Graham Dunne approached her in 1968. He wanted to start a rock band and n...
┏━━━━ •❃°•°❀°•°❃• ━━━━┓ chapter eleven " A sorrir eu pretendo levar a vida, pois chorando eu vi a mocidade perdida. " ( " Smiling I intend to lead life, because crying I saw the youth lost. " ) ┗━━━━ •❃°•°❀°•°❃• ━━━━┛
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NOW PLAYING: "O SOL NASCERÁ" ("THE SUN WILL BE BORN") by CARTOLA (1974)
+ content warning: Infidelity, alcoholism, drug addiction, Billy being an ass, Rory coping with what happened to her, PTSD
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RORY: Since speaking out about what I've been through, I've been asked, "Why didn't you just say no?"
Why didn't. You just. Say. No.
As if I didn't say that over and over, as if I didn't scream and cry and have my mouth covered until I almost passed out. I was conditioned to believe that it was the only way people would listen to me. If I didn't struggle too much while a man pinned my arms behind my back and felt me up, he might listen to one of my song ideas. And maybe he wouldn't. But there was a chance that it could help.
People like Daryl Earlington — monsters like him — are immune to the word 'no.' They have been given everything for their entire lives and view the word as a challenge, a boundary to be pushed, not one to stay behind.
So when people ask, "Why didn't you just say no?" I say, "Why didn't they just stop?"
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THE ORIGINAL PLAN was not for Rory to go on the road with The Six for their SevenEightNine tour. It truly, honestly wasn't. But after Eddie and Warren had brought her home and cleaned the cuts on her face, the boys came to an unspoken agreement that they weren't letting her out of their sight anytime soon. Billy, Graham, and Karen had also agreed.
