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struggle4progress

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Thu Sep 27, 2018, 05:33 PM Sep 2018

Women weep over Ford's testimony

DIANE HERBST
September 27, 2018 03:02 PM

... “When Dr. Ford choked up, I choked up. When her voice broke as she described the details of the assault, I burst into tears,” says Natasha Stoynoff, a PEOPLE writer and author who accused then-candidate Donald Trump of pushing her against a wall and forcing his tongue down her throat during a 2005 interview ...

Another writer, at home in Montclair N.J., tells PEOPLE she suddenly began reliving the acquaintance rape she experienced during the 1980s ...

As CNN reporter MJ Lee tweeted from the hearing: “As Blasey Ford emotionally describes the alleged assault, crying, you can also hear crying and see tears throughout the audience in the room” ...

“I am crying. My daughter is crying. My granddaughter is crying. My niece is crying. This has happened to 3 generations of women in the same family. None of us knew about the other. No. We will not speak of the details, even to each other. Because what happens to those who do,” tweeted @kathcor ...

https://people.com/politics/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-testimony-women-crying-sexual-assault/

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Women weep over Ford's testimony (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2018 OP
Not just women cried - believe me. rurallib Sep 2018 #1
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