Go Ask Alice Part 2 with Carmen Maria Machado
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A Smack Is a Great Sensation Different From Anything Before
"A smack is a great sensation different from anything i had ever had before," she writes. "It wasn't until later i realized that the dirty sons of bitches had taken turn raping us and treating us sadistically and brutally" The author says there's a whole thread in this book about, like, violent sexual abuse by male family members but it never comes up again.
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