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Kirsten Gillibrand: “Senators, you have to walk in my shoes to know how victimized, abandoned and abused I feel.”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2010
Senators, you have to walk in my shoes to know how victimized, abandoned and abused I feel.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Gillibrand urges Senators to empathize with the victims' families.

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