The speaker said she doesn't know anyone else in her family who had an eating disorder, but said many of her family members, including her mother, drank excessively.

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"A young fellow who managed to escape was the one who told us about it, but we don't really know anything else, " Dominguez said.

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For example, if someone from "IT support" calls you and asks for your password so they can help fix your problem, how do you know they haven't called everyone else in the building first until they found you who has really got a problem?

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