Women and Mortality
       

All we know is the country she was murdered in. We don't know exactly why or how she died or who killed her. We know it wasn't a suicide. She was a woman in a foreign country investigating human trafficking, so there are many possibilities. There are also many conspiracy theories. There was no autopsy. Her body was never returned to her family. They were not given a cause of death.

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A woman murdered in my mother's hometown. A woman murdered in my hometown. If I have children, women will be murdered. If I don't have children, women will be murdered.

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