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10 Ways I Will Be Murdered

4 min readJan 6, 2016

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By Liz Galvao

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1. Running in the park by myself. ​My assailant will immediately be able to tell that I am barely propelling my body forward as it is, and could not run away faster even if my life literally depended on it. My disproportionately heavy breathing during light to moderate cardio will leave me unable to scream for help. He will roll my body into a ditch, and it will be found by a French bulldog who did twice as many miles as I did.

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2. Walking past a white van with no windows. ​This is a given. I will be shoved into the back of the van and then held hostage in a basement for nine years, during which time I will not do anything useful, like learn a language or get a head start on my memoirs. I will not even lose any weight.

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3. Taking a shower alone in my apartment on a summer night when I left the window open. ​Obviously, a murderer will…

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