To the editor:
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Based on life experience and what I have seen and heard, I do assume Ghomeshi did those things to those women. I香蕉视频直播檓 also going to assume there are plenty of others who dared not come forward.
Once while in college, I stopped my football teammates from gang-raping a barely conscious drunk student. I scooped the girl up over my shoulder and took her back to her dorm room.
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David Mossman, Kelowna
