We've Tried Nothing, And We're All Out of Ideas

In which I depress myself about intimate partner violence and offer no solutions

Content note: Discussion and some descriptions of intimate partner violence.

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I thought memorializing the dead girls would only take me an hour. 

I deliberately chose not to tell their stories—just names, ages, locations, and dates. I didn’t want to dwell on how they’d died and risk turning the project into salacious clickbait. I also didn’t want to sp…