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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][...]Keyser said she doesn’t remember many small gatherings like the one Ford described, nor does she remember hanging out much with Georgetown Prep students, which Kavanaugh was. She maintains that she didn’t even know who Kavanaugh was back then, after reviewing pictures and maps.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/17/key-witness-brett-kavanaugh-saga-comes-down-his-side/?noredirect=on[/quote]
If you had asked me six months ago if I socialized a lot during high school, I would have said no, my parents were strict and I didn’t really go out much. Then my mother gave me a box of memorabilia from high school including several journals. Guess what?! I went out to small get togethers a lot, like two school nights and two weekend days, and when I read the journal, I didn’t remember several of the people I wrote about interactions with at these parties. High school was just twenty years ago for me, but I obviously didn’t need those inconsequential memories, so my brain pruned them.

Memory is a funny thing. Trauma fixes memories for the people who suffer them; Blasey Ford remembering the night someone attempted to rape her and her friend not remembering is actually a perfect illustration of this.

Sorry if my common sense disrupts your safe space.[/quote]

I graduated HS long before you did.  If I had gone to a party with a friend, was the only other girl there, and that friend ran out of the house without  explanation and I was supposed to be her ride home, you damn well better believe I would remember that.

[quote]“I don’t have any confidence in the story,” Leland Keyser — who Ford has said was at the party where the alleged assault occurred — told two New York Times reporters in their book “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation.”

“Those facts together I don’t recollect, and it just didn’t make any sense,” Keyser insisted of Ford’s account, according to authors Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly.

Last year, Ford testified at Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation that Keyser was at the Maryland house party in the summer of 1982 when Kavanaugh, then 17, attacked her. Ford was 15 at the time.

Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, pushed her into a room and that Kavanaugh forced her onto a bed, tried to remove her bathing suit and attempted to rape her.

Keyser was downstairs when the alleged assault took place, Ford said.

But in the new book, released Tuesday, Keyser threw cold water on that scenario.

[b]“It would be impossible for me to be the only girl at a get-together with three guys, have her leave and then not figure out how she’s getting home,” Keyser told the authors. “I just really didn’t have confidence in the story.”[/b][/quote]

https://nypost.com/2019/09/17/christine-blasey-fords-friend-now-says-shes-skeptical-of-kavanaugh-accusation/[/quote]

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