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"Silence has the rusty taste of shame. The words shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack--when I screamed, when I tried to talk him out of what he was doing, when I protested. It seemed to me that... read more

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This book is about a women who gets raped after leaving the door to her brand new apartment wide open. She then locked evil inside with her. not knowing what to do she couldn't escape. she writes her story on the psychological aspect of it all. She writes to show what happened when she locked... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

This book is about a women who gets raped after leaving the door to her brand new apartment wide open. She then locked evil inside with her. not knowing what to do she couldn't escape. she writes her story on the psychological aspect of it all. She writes to show what happened when she locked evil inside with her that afternoon. From then on her life changed,

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On an October afternoon in 1985 I was raped by a stranger who crept through the open back door of my apartment while I was taking out the trash.

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  1. Nancy Venable Raine (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0517706830
Page Count: 278

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Reading Level: Adults

Not for kids.

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