How Did You Defend Yourself?

We want to hear your story!

The Reader's Digest editors are working on an upcoming story about how to defend yourself if you are the victim of a violent crime. If you or someone you know has ever been the victim of a violent crime, we'd like to hear your story. Specifically, we want to know the tricks you used to escape or outwit your adversary or, looking back now, what you wished you had done.

The best advice will be featured in a future issue of Reader's Digest. And you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you may help save someone's life.

Please email your story to the Reader's Digest editors at letters@rd.com. Be sure to include "How I Defended Myself" in the subject line and look for our story on how to defend yourself in an upcoming issue of Reader's Digest.

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A young woman once entered our bank and wanted to cash a check. "Do you have any identification?" I asked. "Yes," she said. "I have a strawberry mark over my left knee."

-- Harry Chalkley