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“So stay inside, will you tonight, lest she knock on your door with the same dagger in her hand that you used to pull out his rib and push inside her instead. So stay inside, will you tonight for she has tasted the fruit of knowledge and she knows, how there are things that she can make even you, dear father, curl up in horror and dismay.”

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Book:If I Have A Daughter One Day
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