But there had been no true words for the act then: rape was what occurred when some maniac jumped on you out of a bush, not when your formal-dance date drove you to a side road in the mangy twice-cut forest surrounding a tin-pot mining town and told you to drink up like a good girl and then took you apart, layer by torn layer.

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That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years.

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And so it is that if you are a good little Dutch girl or boy, you can expect two Christmas visits from a kindly, old man.

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Have you been a good girl this year?

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These few good lessons have all contributed to making you into a Matchbook Girl.

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The scene may not present any kind of truth about being a stewardess in 1963, but good luck telling that to the little girl in you, who for those few seconds utterly buys this dated, Darin-stoked depiction of freedom and adventure.

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