It may be a story of how their parents or other family member mistreated them, or how a partner or friend betrayed them, or how they fell victim to a crime.

He noted that he often fell victim to the rigid scientific mentality himself, looking for a single causal force for cancer when in fact, there are multiple mechanisms.

My mother and father weren’t together when I was a kid growing up in Chicago, and early on my mother fell victim to drug abuse.