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Cruel Sacrifice by Aphrodite Jones

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These incidents allegedly happened when she was age five and age twelve, respectively.

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“Until about 1970 when parents beat their children to death they very often escaped punishment. They would be prosecuted if it was clear and deliberate murder, but if a parent slapped or shook a child and the child died and the parent said the kid fell down the steps, the police virtually never followed up.”
― Bill James, Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence

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“What you see in Ricky may depend more on who you are than on who he is.”
― Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

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“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success

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“I wondered how small Levy’s dick had to be for him to get this kind of enjoyment from degrading a female employee. Pretty damn small, I concluded.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Fifty-Fifty

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