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It was the very day we got home from our honeymoon. There I was, lying on the bathroom floor, naked and bleeding. He didn’t like the way I hung the towels in the bathroom. When he was done, I had been beaten and sexually assaulted and he was telling me that women should like that, and he asked what was the matter with me. I was nineteen. That was the beginning of my marriage. The abuse—physical, sexual, emotional, and financial—would continue for twenty years.
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