Is anyone listening?

The following article by Eli Saslow was posted on the Washington Post website February 19, 2018:

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This Trump accuser keeps asking herself that. But she plans to keep talking about that day in 2006.

TIFFIN, Ohio — She believed her best chance to be heard was through sheer repetition, so Rachel Crooks took her seat at the dining table and prepared to tell the story again. She was used to difficult audiences, to skeptics and Internet trolls who flooded her Facebook page with threats, but this was a generous crowd: a dozen women, all friends of her aunt, gathered for a casual dinner party on a Friday night. The hostess turned off the music, clanked a fork against her wineglass and gestured to Crooks. “Would you mind telling us about the famous incident?” she asked. “Not the sound-bite version, but the real version.”

“The real version,” Crooks said, nodding back. She took a sip of water and folded a napkin onto her lap. Continue reading “Is anyone listening?”