Some things she could not survive
In memory of Jennifer Lyell
Jennifer Lyell died yesterday.
Three years ago, she told me she didn’t think she would live.
She had survived alleged sexual abuse at the hands of her seminary professor. For a time, she survived being viciously attacked, over and over again, by those who sought to make her out as the villain, the temptress, the whore. But she told me she didn’t think s…