Monica Zuniga Bailey was always the confident, secure girl. Then she lost herself when a man drugged and raped her one night. He looked her in the face and told her, “You are alone.” And she believed it. She felt damaged. She went back home determined to bury the secret of what happened and accept the shame and guilt that she now felt. But though her name, Monica, means “alone,” she later learned that God’s name for her means, “worthy of love.” It was a message she could only accept if she could open up and reveal the truth of her story.

Monica Zuniga Bailey