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in his prep-school football unifor widely It looked like a yearbook shot

Cindy scrolled down the page, reading the lead paragraph of the new stories, thinking that this topic of woman-on-man rape waswith a contentious election, a horrific category-four hurricane in Florida, and a devastating terrorist attack in the Middle East It was as if they were celebrities

Even as Cindy scrolled down the Google list, new stories about Marc Christopher were being added to the queue, crossing the country, ju the pond

The subject of female-on-male rape was controversial, for sure She went back to the story she had posted on her cried from the assertion that men couldn’t be raped, to the dis, to the outlier opinion that wo men for centuries and the men had never been believed

Cindy grabbed her phone and speed-dialed Yuki

Yuki picked up, said, “Please only good news, Cindy I’m swamped with phone calls, e-mails, interoffice mail It’s just crazy”

“I called to tell you that this Marc Christopher case has struck a nerve,” Cindy said “I’m surprised”

Yuki said, “Me, too If this doesn’t die down, I wonder about finding an unbiased jury I’e of venue”

“Yeah,” said Cindy “Calling all people who live under rocks”

Yuki laughed and said, “That’s not funny” She laughed again “Thanks for giving me the redundant heads-up”

The two friends said good-byes

Cindy’s co out with each new alert until she turned off the sound She had scooped otheron a life of its own

CHAPTER 21

YUKI OPENED CINDY’S criainst Briana Hill, which hadn’t yet been brought to trial

After that she googled Briana Hill