Author: Anne Champion
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WHEN THE RAPIST DIES, HE IS LOVED by Anne Champion
I am not saying he should not be loved: how shameful to try to control what makes us most laudably human— the python love that coils, that will chokehold against even the worst truths, until there’s nothing left to gag. I have love for one of my rapists—the mercy is a stain I’ve scrubbed and…