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On December 26, 1985, I was raped, and yesterday I made yet another visit to the doctor to be treated for the consequences. The injury has long healed, but the body remembers, and every few years, the excruciating pain of it returns.

At the time, it was mentioned in passing in a hypnosis session with Dr. Donald Klein as a “rectal probe.” This sparked years and years of laughter, and I found myself to be the only publicly admitted rape victim in modern history whose suffering turned him into a laughingstock.

This added greatly to the anguish, I can assure you. It is devastating to a person’s well-being to suffer such a humiliation and then be laughed at for it.
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I’m afraid this diary may insult both dog lovers and Irishmen but hey, that’s never stopped me yet!

Our son was a handsome boy and Whitley and I are, well, a bit challenged in that department, although I’m a lot less so now that I’ve lost 100 pounds. During one summer, two different people (who didn’t know each other) said the exact same words to us when they saw us with our son: “How did a couple like you ever have a child like Andrew?” They were just trying to start a conversation, but I knew darn well what they meant.
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The truth that Bush tried to hide – We all keep hoping the Obama will reveal what the government knows about UFOs, but while this hasn’t happened yet, they HAVE revealed some fascinating classified information. Satellite evidence of a huge retreat of polar ice from the shores of northern Alaska between July of 2006 and July of 2007, that was classified by the Bush Administration, has just been released by the Obama Administration.
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One time it really was! – Recent questions about the death of Michael Jackson have focused media attention on the commonly used intravenous anesthetic propofol, since an autopsy revealed large amounts of this drug in his body. The doctor who prescribed it wasn’t trying to kill him, but researchers have found a case 5 years ago where the drug was used as a murder weapon.
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