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KELLIE GREENE Why should I be shamed into silence when it is the rapist who is responsible for his actions?
ELIZABETH VARGAS (VO) Shannon is also reaching out. Long before she could talk about her rape, Shannon began writing about it on the Web site she created called ;Welcome to Barbados, named after Tori's lyrics.
SHANNON I miss who I used to be so much. Sometimes I think that part of me isn't dead. She's just hiding in some deep corner, and she's scared of being hurt again.
ELIZABETH VARGAS (VO) The site has now become a clearing house for thousands of rape survivors, posting their stories, giving advice and offering support. (on camera) If you could say one thing to Tori Amos, what would you tell her?
SHANNON That she deserves every ounce of thanks I can muster up because, without her, I don't know where I'd be.
KELLIE GREENE I think I would ask her, how do you move on with your sexuality that's lost? How do you get that back? How do you feel safe? And how do you have that healthy relationship with another person?
ELIZABETH VARGAS And is that something you're still searching for?
KELLIE GREENE I want to find it again. Yep. That's the last thing. But it's the hardest, I believe. It's the hardest.
ELIZABETH VARGAS (VO) We invited Shannon, Kellie and their friend Debbie to spend a few minutes with Tori backstage before a concert.
TORI AMOS Come sit.
KELLIE GREENE May I ask you something personal, because I may never get the chance to do it again?
TORI AMOS Yeah.
KELLIE GREENE How did you get past the sexuality, to find it again?
TORI AMOS It's taken me a long time to be a woman.
KELLIE GREENE Right.
TORI AMOS I have a really good shrink, and we started beading a necklace as she calls it, you know.
KELLIE GREENE Uh-huh.
TORI AMOS This much at a time, a little bead here, a little bead there. A memory, a moment and then one day, something shifted.
KELLIE GREENE I hope that I can get there someday.
TORI AMOS You can get there.
KELLIE GREENE I know.
TORI AMOS You're going to get there.
KELLIE GREENE Thank you.
TORI AMOS (singing) Me and a gun and a man on my back, so I must get out of this.
CHARLES GIBSON Neither Shannon, who you met in that story, nor Tori Amos ever went to authorities to report their rape. Kellie Greene did. And the man who raped her was captured in another case and identified as Kellie's rapist through DNA testing.
next: Tori Amos' Rape Survivor Story
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