“He followed me at a distance, for around ten minutes”

I was walking home from downtown Durham and I’m new to the area so I took a wrong turn. I was uneasy. As I was walking, a man yelled to me. He asked me how old I was or whether I could hear him and some other things I couldn’t understand. I kept walking. He followed me at a distance, for around ten minutes. I was in a neighborhood. I started crying and jogging and trying to flag down cars. I know that’s a stupid thing to do, especially in what appears to be a really bad neighborhood. I can’t tell my family this because I know how stupid it is but I was so fu**ing scared and I got in this couple’s car and they took me to about a block within my house.

– DC

Location: South Street, Durham, North Carolina

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