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Robin Abcarian: Chanel Miller's memoir should be required reading for every cop, judge and prosecutor in America

She became famous as Emily Doe, the young woman whose extraordinary letter to the man who assaulted her behind a dumpster at Stanford went viral after she read it at his sentencing.

"You don't know me," wrote Doe, who was unconscious when she was attacked, "but you have been inside me, and that's why we're here today."

Chanel Miller is not anonymous anymore; her memoir was released Wednesday.

"Know My Name" chronicles her emotional deterioration, the trauma of not knowing what had happened to her, of learning from the internet that her assailant

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