I Didn't Know Was Trafficked: The Toni Fuqua Story, Part One

What if you survived something long before you understood what was happening to you? In I Didn't Know I Was Being Trafficked - The Toni Fuqua Story, Part One, Toni D. Fuqua tells her story in her own words-raw, personal, and unfiltered. Beginning with relationships in her teenage years and continuing into adulthood, Toni takes readers through experiences involving love, betrayal, manipulation, domestic violence, sexual trauma, exploitation, and the complicated moments that existed between them. At the time, she didn't always recognize the patterns surrounding her. Some relationships felt like love. Some people brought happiness as well as pain. Some experiences didn't reveal their true impact until years later. Looking back with a different understanding, Toni begins connecting the pieces. But this memoir isn't about portraying every person in her life as completely good or completely bad. Toni shares the beautiful memories alongside the painful ones. She confronts the times she ignored her intuition, examines her own decisions, and takes accountability for the choices that belonged to her-without accepting responsibility for what others chose to do to her. I Didn't Know I Was Being Trafficked is a deeply personal story about survival, relationships, vulnerability, manipulation, accountability, faith, and finally finding the language to understand experiences that once seemed impossible to explain. It is also the beginning of a larger story. For anyone who has ever looked back at their own life and wondered: How did I not see it then? Why didn't I understand what was happening? And how do I tell my story now that I do? This story is for you. - Toni D. Fuqua