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Wow, I can't tell you how bizzarre it is to turn on the radio and hear the voice of someone who so profoundly disrupted your life. A close friend is one of the victims mentioned in this show. I had the sad vantage of witnessing how hard life was for that person every day, how very simple things became excrutiating and all function seeded with that trauma.

I don't feel angry to hear the voice of the perpetrator, more astonished by how very little insight he seemed to have to share, and how very little was demanded of him by the interviewer and callers who seemed to be screened by their level of pride in the guests. I guess whatever redeeming truth that may be derived from his experience was stalled in hiccups where he replaced the term "child molestation" with the sickening palliated "sexual relation."

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