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52 Every Day I found it in this morning’s paper, online: a story bare as the body of the 14 year old girl. The text a scar of muted grey, no photograph, a headline bleak as the Katlehong veld. ‘Six arrested for gang rape,’ it read. The girl and her friend taken after the party to a house in Moleleki Extension One. Violence, cheap brandy on the breath, souring the room. My computer hums a great divide. Her friend identified the youths because, the constable said, the girl claimed she could not remember what transpired that night. Later, in dreams, maybe, they will come to her, the faces of the men who feared her enough, even after they fucked her, to imprint on her skin, the small cigarette-shaped brands of those who feel powerless. ...

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