VIRGINIA
The Virginian-Pilot
By Bill Sizemore
The Virginian-Pilot
August 7, 2012
For decades, Paul Traub bottled up memories of what happened to him as a child in Virginia Beach. Whenever he tried to talk about it, it seemed no one wanted to listen. He felt there was no place to turn.
Through all those years of silence, the anger inside him smoldered. The father of three sons saw two marriages crumble. Often, trying to dull the pain, he drank himself into a stupor.
His girlfriend of seven years, Kathleen Cleary, says Traub’s struggle to deal with his emotions has affected their relationship, too.
“He told me about it on our second date,” she said. “I wasn’t prepared for how bad it’s been.”
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