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On the recordJune 19, 2019
I have waited over 20 years to tell anyone and I don't know if I can go on.
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Chellie Pingree
Democratic · Maine

Editor's note · Context

Pingree reads a survivor's distressing account of their experience with military sexual trauma.

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