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Virginia Giuffre wrote in her memoir that she was first molested at around age seven by a man close to her family as well as by her own father. The following years for her were very difficult, including when she was lured into the Maxwell/Epstein ring, suffering about two and a half years of coerced sexual abuse while being groomed and trafficked. It's a little difficult for me to comprehend how these things happen but I imagine that the exercise of control over her was masked and that questions like “How old are you?" or "Are you okay?" or "At 17, how did you end up on this private island?” weren't asked by guests of the host. Giuffre escaped when she met a man in Thailand who took her to Australia. In adulthood she had the spotlight of global media shining on her as the focal point of a growing public awareness — not of the fictional QAnon deceit produced to generate contempt for Trump’s opponents — but rather an awareness of an actually existing sex-traff...