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Estelle Platini Sep 4, 2024

"Doing what Andrea Skinner did [comes] with courage.

"Let us meet it with the respect and honor it deserves, with the respect and honor that Andrea Skinner deserves."

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2024/07/12/child-sexual-abuse-alice-munro-andrea-robin-skinner-janet-chwalibog @patriarchy

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Alice Munro doesn't get to tell this story | Cognoscenti

Andrea Skinner, the youngest daughter of Alice Munro, shared an essay this week about being sexually abused by her stepfather. Speaking up doesn't come without pain and loss and years of work to recover from the violence she suffered and from her mother’s horrifying betrayal, writes Janet Chwalibog. What it does come with is courage.

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