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Mon 12 Dec 2002Online support from One in FourThe One In Four website, www.oneinfour.org, is run by people who have been sexually abused for people who have been abused.I have started visiting it recently and, apart from the personal support I find there and the validation for myself in hearing other people's stories, I have found a most surprising similarity in the feelings of the people who visit and contribute to the site. I find it hard to imagine that a group of people who would experience any other traumatic event in common would have such an identical set of feelings.