Cathy Young
1 min readMay 21, 2020

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I experienced a pretty scary incident as a teen when my two friends and I were followed by some guys on bikes on a deserted beach and they made anti-Semitic and sexually threatening comments (and attempted some breast- and butt-grabbing). It was pretty terrifying (thankfully after a while a lifeguard patrol motorboat came by and those guys made a quick getaway). I know I was somewhere between 14 and 16, but can’t pin it down any more than that.

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Cathy Young
Cathy Young

Written by Cathy Young

Russian-Jewish-American writer. Associate editor, Arc Digital; contributor, Reason, Newsday, The Forward etc. https://www.patreon.com/CathyYoung

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