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Chapter 111: The Real Version

Author: Eleanor Vance
last update publish date: 2026-05-11 12:03:04

**Nadia**

The first speech was in February.

Thirty women in a conference room in a building that belonged to a nonprofit that had been running survivor support groups for eleven years and had contacted the foundation two months after we launched asking if anyone on our side would be willing to come speak.

I had said yes before the email was finished.

Dr. Okafor had thoughts about this. She expressed them carefully, which was her way, and I listened carefully, which had become mine, and at the e
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