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The night wound on, with discussion of rape and “envelopment,” a term for the smothering of penises, and more about the narcissism of young girls. A sore point for Factory, who had two daughters. Like young women everywhere, he said, they competed for the most extravagant rape claim. It was, he said, a status thing. When one of his daughters came home one night and told him she’d been raped, he said he asked her, “Are you fucking kidding me?” Sitting with us, he hiked his voice up to a falsetto in imitation of his child: “ ‘Oh, I just got raped’ ” He laughed. There was a moment of silence. ...more
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