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    <body><![CDATA[Thanks to Sue for this recommendation. A very important book. I simply can't believe I was not familiar with this story of social injustice in North Carolina. Nearly the entire story was played out while I lived only one county away. A white college student, Jennifer Thompson, is raped by a black ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52579530">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[what a very great inspiring book.  Jennifer Thompson wrongly accuses Ronald Cotton.  He is sentenced to life plus 50 years for a rape and assault he did not commit on Jennifer and another woman.  Finally after 11 years of imprisonment he is set free due to the testing of DNA after the OJ Simpson cas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51305972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[saw them interviewed on The Today Show which led me to read the book - story of a woman who was raped, identified and testified against her rapist, he was sent away to prison w/ 2 life sentences + 50 years (accused/convicted in another rape as well).  After spending eleven years in prison, he was ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53075178">more...</a>]]></body>
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