As the only surviving offspring of the Peyton family, Annabelle and her younger brother had always been unusually close despite the ten-year difference in their ages
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This is Mr. Simon Hunt
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He’s an entrepreneur.”
“You mean a financial speculator?” Annabelle
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In time, he’d learned how the world truly measured the worth of a man. His rebelliousness was replaced by a very sincere desire just to stay alive. He’d learned to live in a world where a man’s word was his bond—breaking it could be a death warrant.
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Pimps use the divide-and-conquer tactic that has been so popular historically to control girls and young women.
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There are a million rationalizations that men employ to deny the exploitation that they’re a part of.
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If they are not good victims, in other words, they are not real victims.
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It is clear that race and class make a difference in how much of a victim we believe you are.
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As William Jelani Cobb, a professor at Spelman College, points out, “As long as black women could be understood to be sexually lascivious, it was impossible to view them as victims of sexual exploitation.”
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their best chance for survival was to comply and bond with the person who had the power to keep them alive.
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