#battered

The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same. ↗

— Michael Baden

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#autopsy #battered #been #evidence #expertise

In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two, she had decided to go back to the one who had hurt her. It happened all the time. Some women came here seven or eight times before they made the choice to give up on their marriages and refuse to live in a dangerous place. ↗

— Deborah Bedford A Morning Like This

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#family #marriage #pain #women #family

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. ↗

— Rick Allen

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#brand #brand new #character #i #new