These e-mails are reflections of what we feel is happening in society, our fears and anxieties. It's not that women are being abducted and raped more or that both sexes are becoming victims of violent crimes more, it is a way of expressing to our friends that here's the stuff we are worried about.

Barbara Mikkelson

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