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An open letter to the man who raped my wife
A jolting tale of incest, rape, and the strength to heal
AS TOLD TO ERIN CARLYLE
At about 10 a.m. on a weekday in mid-November, Bill sat down to write a letter. Then, on Nov. 22, Bill sent the letter to City Pages.
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- The King of France: Salad Days
- The Cramps: Fiends of Dope Island
- The Lilys: Precollection
- Mono: One Step More And You Die
- The New Pornographers: Electric Version
- The Spectors: Beat is Murder: Cockfights & Cakefights 1992-1996
- Glass Candy: Love Love Love
- 50 Cent: Get Rich or Die Tryin'
- Yo La Tengo: Summer Sun
- The White Stripes: Elephant
- The Blood Brothers: Burn, Piano Island, Burn
- A.R.E. Weapons: A.R.E. Weapons
- Howe: The Listener
- Gogol Bordello: Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony
- Lightning Bolt: Wonderful Rainbow
- Azita: Enantiodromia
- White Light Motorcade: Thank You, Goodnight!
- Dave Holland Big Band: What Goes Around
- The Angels Of Light: Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home
- Common: Electric Circus
- Majesticons: Beauty Party
- Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike: Looks Like Velvet, Smells Like Pee
- The Clean: Anthology
- Ted Leo/Pharmacists: Hearts of Oak
- Cat Power: You Are Free
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Nocturama
- The Raveonettes: Whip It On
- Wasteland: Amen Fire
- Hecker: Sun Pandämonium, Aleph Empire: Playback Confusion Device Volume One
- Happy Apple: Youth Oriented
- Triple R: Friends
- Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
- Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
- The Roots: Phrenology
- Ikara Colt: Chat and Business
- Seiichi Yamamoto: Crown of Fuzzy Groove
- Languis: Untied
- Various Artists: Total 4, Ellen Allien: Weiss.Mix
- Carei Thomas Feel Free Ensemble: Mining Our Bid'ness
- Jason Moran: Modernistic
- Missy Elliott: Under Construction
- The Beatifics: The Way We Never Were
- MC Paul Barman: Paullelujah!
- Fennesz: Field Recordings 1995:2002
- Various Artists: Chilly Northern Women
- Lateduster: Lateduster, and Five Easy Pieces
- Liars: They Threw Us All in a Trench
- Franklin Bruno: A Cat May Look At A Queen , Jenny Toomey: Tempting: Jenny Toomey Sings the Songs
- Eyes Adrift: Eyes Adrift
- Various Artists: Boom Selection_Issue 01
- Amon Tobin: Out from Out Where
- Thievery Corporation: The Richest Man in Babylon
- Babalu: The Ultra Wide Band Meets the Mighty Babalu Pt. 2
- Girls Against Boys: You Can't Fight What You Can't See
- Iron and Wine: The Creek Drank the Cradle
- Jimmy Fallon: The Bathroom Wall
- Sleater-Kinney: One Beat
- Steve Earle: Jerusalem
- Deerhoof: Reveille
- Iannis Xenakis
- Milemarker: Satanic Versus
- Tommy Keene: The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
- Dälek: From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots
- Múm: Finally We Are No One
- Solomon Burke: Don't Give Up on Me
- Mike Doughty: Smofe + Smang: Live in Minneapolis
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Arto Lindsay: Invoke
- Andrew Broder: Modern Hits EP
- City of New Orleans
- Trans Am: TA
- Consonant: Consonant
- cLOUDDEAD: S/T
- Archer Prewitt: Three
- American Gigolo, and Tangent 2002: Disco Nouveau
- Chris Bowden: Slightly Askew
- Akufen: My Way
- Mike Ireland & Holler: Try Again
- Ugly Casanova: Sharpen Your Teeth
- Luna: Romantica
- Various Artists import; 2 Many DJs; KID606
- Pour Some Sugar On Me
- Pretty Girls Make Graves: Good Health
- High on Fire: Surrounded by Thieves
- A Certain Ratio: Early; and Various Artists: In the Beginning There Was Rhythm
- Dan Israel: Cedar Lake
- Ben Kweller: Sha Sha
- Denali: Denali
- Kid America And The Action Figures: Bandy
- J-Live: All of the Above
- Martin Devaney: Somebody Somewhere
- Josh Rouse: Under Cold Blue Stars
- Boards of Canada: Geogaddi
- Buffalo Daughter: I
- Matthew Shipp: Nu Bop
- Mates of State: Our Constant Concern
- Bob Mould: Modulate
- Ed Harcourt: Here Be Monsters
- Hefner: Dead Media
- Rye Coalition: On Top
- Heiruspecs: Small Steps
- Local H: Here Comes the Zoo
- Lambchop: Is a Woman
- Goodiepal: Narc Beacon
- Louie Austen: Only Tonight
- The Hidden Chord: The Captain and His Entourage
- NORMAN BLAKE AND PETER OSTROUSHKO: Meeting on Southern Soil
- RINOÇÉROSE: Music Kills Me
- THE DB'S: Stands for deciBels/Repercussion
- Princess Superstar: Princess Superstar Is
- Push Button Objects: 360° Remixes, Tosca: Different Tastes of Honey
- Lucky Jeremy: Happy Get Lucky
- Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
- Lost in Space
- Dub Taylor: Detect and Various Artists: Superlongevity
- Ryan Adams: Gold
- Circulatory System: Circulatory System
- Various Artists: False Object Sensor
- Yesterday's New Quintet: Angles Without Edges
- The Spacewurm : See You Later Oscillator
- Sensational: Get on My Page
- Ivy: Long Distance
- The Beta Band: Hot Shots II
- Baaba Maal: Missing You (Mi Yeewnii)
- Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman: Nankuru Naisa
- Ted Leo/Pharmacists: The Tyranny of Distance
- DJ Christian Smith: Tronic Treatment: A DJ Mix
- Air: 10,000 Hz Legend
- Fantastic Plastic Machine: Beautiful.
- The Moldy Peaches: The Moldy Peaches
- The Clientele: Suburban Light
- Matmos: A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure
- The Boredoms: Vision Creation Newsun
- Shipping News: Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company
- Daft Punk Discovery
- Tortoise: Standards
- various artists: The Braindance Coincidence
- Lil Wayne: Lights Out
- Various Artists: Doity Records Vol. 1, and Flashbacks #3: Copulation Blues 1926-1940
- Buck 65: Man Overboard
- R. Kelly: TP-2.com
- Matthew Herbert: Globus Mix Vol. 5, and Frankie Bones: You Know My Name
- Martin Sexton: Wonder Bar
- Jay-Z: The Dynasty: Roc La Familia 2000
- Blur: The Best of Blur
- Smog: 'Neath the Puke Tree
- Great Plains: Length of Growth: 1981-89
- Yo La Tengo: Danelectro
- Smut Peddlers: Porn Again
- Doves: Lost Souls
- Merle Haggard: If I Could Only Fly
- Various Artists: Éthiopiques 8
- The Eternals: The Eternals
- Plastilina Mosh: Juan Manuel
- Libraness: Yesterday...and Tomorrow's Shells
- J. Mascis + The Fog: More Light
- Kasey Chambers: The Captain
- Gomez: Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline
- Junior Vasquez: Twilo, Volume 1: Junior Vasquez
- various artists: Kwaito: South African Hip Hop
- The Twilight Singers: Twilight as Played by the Twilight Singers
- Chicks on Speed: The Rereleases of the Unreleases
- Broadcast: Extended Play Two, Movietone: The Blossom Filled Streets
- Bettie Serveert: Private Suit
- Mocean Worker: Aural & Hearty
- Goldfrapp: Felt Mountain
- Green Day: Warning
- Analog Brothers: Pimp to Eat, and Kool Keith: Matthew
- Underworld: Everything, Everything
- Silkworm: Lifestyle
- Quasimoto: The Unseen
- Jurassic 5: Quality Control
- Richard Ashcroft: Alone With Everybody
- P.M. Dawn: The Best of P.M. Dawn
- Spring-Heel Jack: Disappeared
- ESG: ESG: A South Bronx Story
- Michael Bisio/Eyvind Kang: MBEK™ Also: Axel Dörner/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Michael Zerang: Claque
- Lucy Pearl: Lucy Pearl
- The Glands: The Glands
- Saint Etienne: Sound of Water
- Everclear: Songs from an American Movie, Vol. One: Learning How to Smile
- Bellwether: Bellwether
- Brother Ali: Rites of Passage