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“She wanted to console you, but it’s ridiculous to interpret abuse as love… too many women are the accomplices of cruel, indifferent men. They lie for these men. They lie to their own children. Because their father treated them exactly the same way. These women always retain some hope that love is hiding behind the cruelty, so that the anguish doesn’t drive them mad. Truth is… there’s no love there.”