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Part One: Henry Morton Stanley: The Explorer Who Shot His Way Through Africa

Behind the Bastards

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The Child Prison

"This is one of those stories that it reads like an experiment for how much can we damage a child? Like if we really go all in how badly can we fucking get up?" "Stanley was noted the rest of his life by everyone who knew him for having an extreme terror of physical and sexual intimacy. He would always claim in letters to like his romantic partners that he stayed pure at the school while writing about it later but that doesn'tucking meet a damn thing," she says. 'I had expected to feel a gush of tenderness towards her but her expression was so chilling'

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