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I missed the story of Rebecca Cheptegei in the news. So terrible, and something I do not want to see, but I do want to know because to not know is to collude with a world that pretends that shit like this doesn’t happen.

Thank you for singing the song of Rebecca so painfully eloquently.

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No matter how far you can run, you can't escape the violence of men. I hate it here. Thank you for this beautiful rage sob.

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Oh, honey.

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Your words were both beautiful and horrifying at the same time. I have no words, only tears.

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Absolutely brilliant writing CD.

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The prose was so beautiful, and the pain so real. I wish for the day that this would stop happening.

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This is such a tragic story and so incredibly written. I don’t know why it isn’t getting more engagement.

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We'll just cross our fingers that more people share it the way you did and eventually it spreads her story farther.

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I shared to Facebook as well which I know doesn’t play nice with Substack but I have way more followers there.

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I really LOVE this. I wept when read the story finger death in CNN. She will hold a place in my heart as long as it beats. One really small detail. She was living and training in Kenya at the time of her murder.

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Thank you so much, for everything, including the correction. I clearly misunderstood the account I read on that point.

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A powerful essay. Beautiful and tragic. Thank you for honoring her.

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💔😢

Why do men hate us so much???

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Thank you.

This story hit hard in the Bongo household, with Mrs Bongo being Kenyan and a survivor of domestic abuse from her first husband, back in Nairobi.

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My origin story is fighting domestic and sexual violence. Tell her I have her back, always.

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Beautifully written elegy for a woman whose life was too short.

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CRIP DYKE: What an awful story, but how beautifully and dramatically told! What a terrible tragedy, what a tale of triumph, what a brutal tale of madness...... I shake in anger and tears, I stumble in shock! How painful.

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