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James PATTERSON
How many times would you say you went? Hundreds. Hundreds. I was—he used to tell me I was his
favorite. He bought me a car. He bought me—
- This Jeep that you're driving? - No. I had a brand-new Dodge Neon. I got a plane—I got a
plane ticket to New York; I got spending money whenever |
wanted. Like, 1 was in there deep. | was—he asked my par-
ents to emancipate me so | could live with him. Or he didn't
ask my parents, he asked me to ask my parents, I'm sorry. He
actually wanted me to come live with him.
- As, like, a girlfriend? - Sex slave, whatever you want to ca
Il it. Yeah. Um, but it
escalated —he, he just increased my pay, as long as he could touch me. I wouldn't let him put anything inside of me. And then one day he just did, one day he just put his hand, like, his fingers—and, um...
How long, would you say, from the very first time you went? Months. Honestly, I never kept track, like, of, of what happened when. I just can tell you in which order things progressed.
It was—it was, like, towards the middle and end of my school year. But I remember that for the last, like, six or eight
weeks of high school, | didn't have a car ‘cause I gave it back
to him. Because he—he asked me t
like, like suck him and stuff [giggles], and 1 was just like, no. —
Definitely not. | was like, “I'll let you touch me, but I’m not
gonna do that.”
Yeah, the car was a Dodge Neon 2005. He got it for me before ‘ it—it was an edition y
the New Year, because I remember I got
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stand the question. Okay. The first time Are you asking for a
D: Oh, no, no, no—
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