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What is most heartbreaking to me is the young women who don't report [being raped] because they were drinking, and they feel like it was their fault that they were drinking. I mean, that is so common.

Claire McCaskill

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Claire McCaskill
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 24
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