“Do you think I’m right to be afraid of him?” “Yeah,” Norma said. “Probably so.” That seemed to surprise the girl. “Because . . .” “Because there are a lot of men who hurt women. Especially the women they’re supposed to love. Not most men, but enough that probably every day somebody dies at the hands of someone who promised to love her. And if a woman tries to tell us she’s in danger, and we just pass that off as a woman being emotional, or see her as an unreliable narrator, then that makes the way awful damn easy for those men. Besides. I know he twisted your arm behind your back and forced
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