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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
Well, I mean, I think there's...
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
One very interesting fact, you know, and I said, you know, the facts are disputable in this.
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
There are no hard facts.
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
And I would say the hard facts actually come from piecing together the biography of these women.
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
That's the only place that you can actually draw facts from because you can cross reference it with other documents.
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
I think it's important to say that a lot of the story behind making them into prostitutes comes from,
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
assumption comes from sensationalised Victorian newspaper reports.
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
Ripperology has been very hesitant to actually look at things such as
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
what is said on the death certificates of these women.
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
Well, I mean, it's very interesting because even before it was out there in the world, the reception that I met with was extremely unfavorable.
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
The group of people who see themselves as kind of the gatekeepers of this information, who call themselves riparologists, just didn't like me, just didn't like what I was doing.
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
Why?
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
What were they worried about?
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
Well, they...
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
First of all, thought that I was forwarding a quote-unquote feminist agenda, and so I was prettifying their lives.
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
I have been told that I am a liar.
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
I have been accused of being like David Irving, the Holocaust denier.
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
What is it you're supposed to have denied?
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
Well, they've told me that I have basically suppressed evidence.
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and that I have lied, that these women are prostitutes, and that I have twisted the truth, and I have hidden things, and that actually I'm the one who is dishonoring them, because I'm not allowing them to be what they were, because I'm trying to prettify their lives.