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" "When he finished talking, I said, “Your mother did not deserve the unwanted attentions of a man like my father.” I said, “I did not deserve the unwanted attentions of a man like you. It is often women who pay the price for what men want.
Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and commentator.
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