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Speaker 1: Welcome to the ten Minute Storyteller. That's me Bill Simpson,

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Speaker 1: your host, narrator and author. We hear at the ten

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Speaker 1: minute Storyteller endeavor to entertain you with tall tales or

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Speaker 1: rendered swiftly and with the utmost empathy. We pledge to

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Speaker 1: pack as much entertainment, emotion, and exploration into the human

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Speaker 1: condition as ten minutes will permit mini novels on steroids.

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Speaker 1: This week we meet Dan. Dan wants an eye for

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Speaker 1: an eye. Sure, he'd been a frat boy, done his

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Speaker 1: share of drinking and carousing, but it was different then,

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Speaker 1: more innocent. They didn't slip Mickey's into the girl's drinks. Now.

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Speaker 1: Dan's memory of his college days might be a tad

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Speaker 1: murky and a touch selective, but he knows what he knows,

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Speaker 1: and he knows the names of the boys who violated

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Speaker 1: his daughter. Rethinking date rape, Dan, Dad did his research,

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Speaker 1: his due diligence. He didn't just fly off the handle

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Speaker 1: and shoot up the whole damn fratthouse. Oh, he wanted

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Speaker 1: to when he first got the word, when he first

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Speaker 1: saw his daughter, when he first heard the horror story.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to buy an AK forty seven on the

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Speaker 1: black market. Fill the trunk of his bends with Ammo,

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Speaker 1: drive across the state line and attack that damn fratthouse

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Speaker 1: as though it was a croud machine gun bunker on

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Speaker 1: the beaches of Normandy. But Dan Dad kept his cool,

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Speaker 1: did the breathing exercises the therapist had taught him to

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Speaker 1: a three hundred pound defensive lineman. He hired a private investigator.

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Speaker 1: He gave the slick, wise cracking sleuth a hefty retainer.

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Speaker 1: Told him he wanted names. I want the filthy, stinking'

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Speaker 1: names of every son of a bitch involved. He got

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Speaker 1: me his girl, his eldest, his most precious, the one

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Speaker 1: who had fully and finally taught him the true meaning

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Speaker 1: of love. Was a straight a student, four point three gpa, soccer, basketball,

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Speaker 1: and track, peer leader on the staff at the high

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Speaker 1: school paper, taught Sunday school, and was a counselor at

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Speaker 1: the summer wreck program in their small suburban town. A

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Speaker 1: real sweetheart and his pride and joy. She got accepted

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Speaker 1: to every college she applied to, including an IVY. In

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Speaker 1: the end, she chose her dad's alma mater. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: her first choice, but she wanted to make him happy.

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Speaker 1: She wanted to make him proud. Driving across the bridge

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Speaker 1: breast pocket of his Ralph Loreen featherlight jacket, he remembers

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Speaker 1: the day, just a few short months ago when he

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Speaker 1: and Ellen dropped off their baby to begin her college career.

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Speaker 1: A magnificent late summer day, high blue skies, a gentle

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Speaker 1: breeze upon the hill top campus, overlooking town, the grass cut,

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Speaker 1: the hedges pruned, the ivy forest green against the old,

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Speaker 1: new beginnings, of great things to come. He carried boxes

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Speaker 1: freshman year. Such a great year, so many new friends

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Speaker 1: and excellent experiences. Pledged a fraternity, drank a few beers,

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Speaker 1: even smoked a little grass, and did some crazy shit. Shit,

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Speaker 1: well shit you're supposed to do in college. Not that

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Speaker 1: he ever told his kids about any of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: All that stuff was out the window once he became apparent.

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Speaker 1: Once he had to set an example. Oh yeah, he remembers,

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Speaker 1: But he damn well, never did anything like this, Never

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Speaker 1: did anything anything like this ever, not like this, No way.

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Speaker 1: There were beer bashes in the basement of the frat house. Sure,

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Speaker 1: and okay, yeah, the girls, especially the good looking girls,

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Speaker 1: well they were encouraged to drink, Sure, to have another.

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Speaker 1: But that was it, that was all. After crossing the bridge,

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Speaker 1: he turns off the highway and drives north along the river.

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Speaker 1: He's going to do it, goddamn right, He's going to

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Speaker 1: do what needs to be done. There are simply times

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Speaker 1: in life when nothing less than an eye for an

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Speaker 1: boxes and lamps and comforters up to the second floor

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Speaker 1: joked around with them, told them his name, told them

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Speaker 1: he was an alum in the record books, played football

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Speaker 1: running back, told them his daughter's name, told them his

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Speaker 1: little girl was extremely valuable merchandise, not to be touched.

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Speaker 1: Those young men laughed and nodded and acted and pressed,

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Speaker 1: even as they thought to themselves, who is this old douchebag.

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Speaker 1: The old douchebag is now armed and dangerous. They violate

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Speaker 1: his valuable merchandise, his sweetheart, his pride and joy, his

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Speaker 1: first born, the one who taught him the meaning of

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Speaker 1: She had been on campus for a month or so,

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Speaker 1: but hadn't attended any parties yet, at least not any

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Speaker 1: new college friends, all of them kind of quiet and

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Speaker 1: was deafening and a hundred or more kids shouted and

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Speaker 1: danced and drank from the enormous punch bowl in the

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Speaker 1: of punch. She sipped it, cool and sweet, didn't taste

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Speaker 1: than beer. Parched. She drank it and a second glass too.

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Speaker 1: Within a few minutes, she started to feel dizzy a

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Speaker 1: started upstairs, where the desire to sit, or better yet,

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Speaker 1: lie down, quickly overwhelmed her. She spotted a dark brown

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Speaker 1: dark paneled front foyer, and she belined for it. That

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Speaker 1: dark brown leather sofa is the last thing she remembers

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Speaker 1: about that evening. Dozens of times she has gone over

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Speaker 1: the details with school officials, campus police, town detectives, Mom,

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Speaker 1: and especially Dad, and always that dark brown leather sofa

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Speaker 1: is the last thing she remembers. The truth, of course,

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Speaker 1: is that the attacks remain deeply embedded in her psyche,

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Speaker 1: and no way does she intend to dredge them up.

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Speaker 1: The large quantity of rahipnol she ingested in those two

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Speaker 1: glasses of punch rendered her unfit to defend herself or

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Speaker 1: to fully comprehend exactly what was unfolding. As first one boy,

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Speaker 1: and then in quick succession, two other boys held her

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Speaker 1: remembers hearing laughter, and now Dan, Dad has their names

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Speaker 1: in his pocket. The detective paid college kids thousands of

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Speaker 1: dollars to go into the frat house, Play dumb and

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Speaker 1: get the names. Now, Dan has the names, three names

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Speaker 1: in his pocket. The boys who answer to those names

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Speaker 1: don't have a clue that he's now cruising up the

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Speaker 1: long winding drive to the campus in his Mercedes Benz.

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Speaker 1: This well known alum who still holds the record for

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Speaker 1: most rushing touchdowns in a season, and say some for

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Speaker 1: scoring the most co eds in his senior year. He

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Speaker 1: parks and steps out of his long, snazzy black sedan. No,

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Speaker 1: those college boys just doing what college boys are supposed

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Speaker 1: to do, don't have a clue that the father of

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Speaker 1: the girl they drugged and raped his armed to the

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Speaker 1: teeth with three, count them, three large syringes of pure fentanyl,

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Speaker 1: potent enough to send an eight hundred pound bull moose

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Speaker 1: back to his maker. Thanks for listening to this original

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Speaker 1: audio presentation of Rethinking Date Rape, narrated by the author.

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