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What is Teen Dating Violence?
15 year old Sue was interested in a guy at school. She thought Mark was pretty neat. He was good looking. Everybody liked him. He seemed to like her, although she wasn't sure. He would come up to her at lunch when she was with her girlfriends. He would interrupt them and expect Sue to go with him. She always did. She didn't want to cause a scene, and she was flattered.

One evening Mark called and asked her to go to a party. At the party Sue had a hard time getting Mark to leave. He just wouldn't listen. When he took her home they started kissing. Then he got pretty insistent. Sue tired to tell him to stop, but he didn't even answer her. As she silently struggled, he forced her to have sex. Sue felt she had been raped, but wasn't sure. When it was over, Mark asked her what was wrong? She couldn't believe it. As if he didn't know.

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