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The atmosphere is tense among women in East Bakersfield.  A serial rapist, who has left a trail of three known victims and perhaps additiona...

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"Your Aunt Carol is going slowly.  I just want you to know that."  I could feel my dad's eyes linger on me for a moment, as th...

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"There is nothing special about me. . . My story is a story of very ordinary people during extraordinarily terrible times.  Times t...