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Ilsa

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5. These girls probably felt ignored or unloved by

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 08:30 AM

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their parents, and sought approval from other adults.

Some of those girls knew they would need to be able to support themselves very soon, and a massage license would provide them with a decent income without a college degree. The parents no longer had a teen begging them for money, why ask "why"?

The girls' brains were still very immature and gullible, exactly what Maxwell and Epstein needed to supply their sex trafficking business.

(No judgment of you.)

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