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How to Support a Friend in an Abusive Relationship

Go bags, photo documents, and saving text messages can help

Feminista Jones
ZORA
Published in
6 min readMay 28, 2020

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A photo of a despondent black woman sitting by the window in the stairwell.
Photo: Terry Vine/Getty Images

When Lorena Gallo met John Wayne Bobbitt in the late 1980s, she never imagined her world would come crashing down around her. After marrying him in 1989, John went on to spend the next four years terrorizing Lorena with physical beatings, sexual…

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