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In a rural county, I once assessed a woman who murdered her husband. He kept a rifle next to his bed, the same rifle he used to brutalize her, the same rifle used to shoot up her mothers home, and the same rifle he showed the sheriff’s deputy as he and the deputy drank beer after she had made a domestic abuse call in the early 1970s, her last call to the authorities. He had ruptured her colon with a kick, had tattooed his name near her genitalia, and had threatened her mother with rape if she tried to help.
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Conran, T., Strong, T., Keeney, B. (2004). Certainties v. Epiphanies. In: Strong, T., Paré, D. (eds) Furthering Talk. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8975-8_11
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