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Justice for Sansa Stark

The death that offers both justice and catharsis has been, for one character in particular, an elusive thing. But <em>Game of Thrones </em> found a way to achieve both.
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Warning: Season 6 spoilers abound.

“Your words will disappear. Your house will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear.”

With that—a prediction, a curse, a cold statement of fact—Sansa Stark, on Sunday night’s episode of Game of Thrones, said goodbye to Ramsay Bolton, her rapist and her emotional abuser and her political nemesis and her husband. And then she did the thing Ramsay had done to so many others, so many times before: She left him to be mauled, and then eaten, by his hounds.

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