On July 6, 1984, an 18 year old male armed with a meat cleaver broke into my house and sexually assaulted me. I was raped. It was two days shy of my 37th birthday. After he had burst through my door and physically overwhelmed me, knocking over lamps and furniture in the process, he held the cleaver to my throat, and said he'd kill me if I didn't do what he told me to do. I did.