(the answer is no) Do ‘real men’ hit women?

It was the day I learned the difference between sympathy and empathy. The phone rang on my desk. It was a woman I had written about. Her husband had beaten her for years. She divorced him, she took him back, she remarried him. The beatings continued. She would leave, and he would go after her. When she fled to her mother’s house, he followed…

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