And now, years on, the DEC curse has even reached out and poisoned the one part of the company that managed to escape and adopt the ways of the infidel.

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In some cases in which I have been involved, victims have been left alone, were poorly guarded, did not try to escape or seemed almost compliant in a variety of ways in their victimization.

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