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He proceeded to rape me and then told me to take a shower, kept the shower curtains open,

and he sat on the toilet with the machete just twirling the machete in his hand.

Real people.

He was trying to rip my head off, and he grabbed onto the back on my head, and he forced me into the ground, stood on top of me, and he just started to chao away in my head.

Who faced death.

If he gets this knife away from me, he's going to kill me.

So I plunged the knife in until I could feel the bottom of my fists hitting his skin,

and I just tore.

And live to tell how.

I'm dying.

I am going to die here, and I just remember thinking, please just let my body be found. Let my parents have

closure. This is I survived.

It's July 2007 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

27-year-old Jessica has just moved into her own apartment.

Her parents have an apartment in the same complex.

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