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This episode includes discussions of murder, sexual assault of adults and children, rape,

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She already knew the risks everyone did.

But Dersella Joseph wasn't the only woman who still chose to hitchhike along the highway

of tears, despite everything.

Frankly, she didn't choose to hitchhike at all.

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