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    The Woman Who Fed the Dogs

    I don’t deserve a medal. I deserve hatred, scorn, poison. People send me letters in which they describe in great detail what they would do to me if they had the chance. The post The Woman Who Fed the Dogs appeared first on Guernica.
    by Kristien Hemmerechts and Paul Vincent Jan 07, 2019 2 minutes
    Collage: Ansellia Kulikku.

    The most hated woman in Belgium. That’s what they call me. Much more hated than that woman who murdered her five children. Most people have already forgotten her. Not me. Meanwhile other mothers have murdered their children, though not as resolutely as her, not as unerringly. She is and will remain the queen among murderess-mothers, the gold medalist, the Medea of our age.

    I don’t deserve a medal.

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