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The Moth Radio Hour: Guts! Courage.

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Are You Can Fight?

"Freezing is the last option, unless maybe you're being pursued by a grisly bear," she says. "It seems to be my default reaction to stress ... It's like a learned behavior." The author was inspired after an encounter with a man who tried to rape her and another woman on a bus. She writes: "There are other options like this, like solidarity - there's safety and power in solidarity"

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