GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — National Domestic Violence Awareness Month got off to a somber start Tuesday as the community gathered for a candlelight vigil at the YWCA in Grand Rapids.
At the start of each October, the Kent County Domestic Violence Community Coordinated Response Team hosts a candlelight vigil to remember domestic violence victims and honor survivors.
“I used to look in the mirror and remember being so in love and so free and I used to think domestic violence would never happen to me,” a survivor said, reciting a poem she wrote for the vigil.
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