Saleema Hicks Robinson is an educator and author whose memoir, My Teacher Called It Love, tells the story of being groomed by her middle school teacher beginning at age thirteen 

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Written from both memory and hard-one understanding, her memoir gives language to an experience she once understood as love and now recognizes for what it was. Through her story, Saleema brings attention to the ways grooming can hide behind trust, authority, affection, and silence.