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    The Sepia Girl
    The Sepia Girl
    The Sepia Girl
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    The Sepia Girl

    By Michael Luketich

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    The true story of a lawyer and the victim he couldn't forget.

    One case out of hundreds. One victim out of thousands. One memory he just can't shake. This is the true story of a prosecutor and how his life and mind unraveled as the result of a seven-second-long video.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Luketich
    Release dateJun 15, 2018
    ISBN9781386964865
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      The Sepia Girl - Michael Luketich

      NOTICE

      This book makes repeated references to a roughly seven-second-long, sepia-toned video depicting the sexual assault of a young girl, which was seized during (and viewed as part of) a criminal investigation that the author participated in several years ago. The focus of this book is not on the video’s contents, but instead on the effects of viewing it. As a result, this book does not describe the assault in detail – it is not that type of book – and does not attempt to identify the victim’s real name, referring to her instead as the Sepia Girl.

      The cover image is a photograph by Nicki Varkevisser (2010). It was shared and is used under the Creative Commons license. The girl in the photograph is not the Sepia Girl.

      PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION

      Even as I write these words, I remain unsure whether this new edition of The Sepia Girl will ever find its way into print.  For over three years, this book has been a part of me and yet it has been buried so deeply behind a ridiculous pseudonym that I can easily limit those who can associate it with me.  If you are reading these words, then the deception is over (for better or worse).

      The Sepia Girl was my first book. I wrote it one night while sitting on my in-laws’ couch watching late-night infomercials because I had read somewhere that writing about trauma could make it easier to process it.  I have trouble remembering things, but that moment has stuck with me.  At the time, I was unemployed and worried that I was unemployable.  I was in desperate need of a win.  After

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