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I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

Welcome to Hard Knocks.

I'm going to be hopefully discussing a question, a very important question that you are going to raise to me and hopefully I don't lose my mind in the process.

Well, this doesn't come from my brain, but from the brain of a listener. Oh, okay. Great.

Who wrote in to say, so Amanda contacted and met her prosecutor, and it went well in the sense

it was not a train wreck of opposing views and denial.

Okay.

But in most cases, the abuser is not even acknowledging any harm mostly due to his

denial and constructed reality. So what do you have to say to the majority of people in a similar

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