This is an incredibly eloquent and powerful interview with Melinda Gates- it can be hard to remember, when countless girls who were underage and without resources were victimized in such horrific ways by Epstein and his cohort, that women who exist within the apparent safety of a powerful and beyond financially safe union can also be victims in the context of that relationship. There are women who, like Ghislaine Maxwell, collude in order to remain under the umbrella of power. And there are women who trusted and hoped and lost. Unfortunately, there are a lot of genres of relationship to survive:

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