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The younger woman agreed and said \u201cIt\u2019s sad the way that whole thing went down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The older woman replied: \u201cWhen I was a child, you know what we called it? \u2018Playing around.\u2019 Today it would be called \u2018abuse.\u2019 It changes with the generations. But we didn\u2019t think anything of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

That she said with confidence. And then she said something\u00a0about \u201cthat boy in the shower\u201d and the suicides she\u2019s read about and in a few seconds her voice trailed off.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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