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1977年6月的一个夜晚。堪萨斯州威奇托市。47岁的露丝·芬莱一个人在家,电话铃突然响了。露丝的丈夫埃迪是一家建筑公司的财务秘书,前一天由于怀疑心脏病发作而进了医院。露丝刚拿起电话,就听见一个男人说:“你是从斯科特堡来的露丝·斯默克吗?”露丝吃了一惊,说:“对,是啊。”心想这可能是哪个老同学。“我发现一份剪报,”那男人接着说,“是从1946年10月15日的《斯科特堡论坛报》上剪下来的,标题是‘色情狂用熨斗烙伤高中女学生’。这女学生就是你,对吗?给我钱,否则我把你张扬出去。”露丝气急了,啪地挂上电话,然而回忆却如潮涌来。露丝·斯默克在密苏里州的一个小农场长大。16岁那年,她搬到斯科特堡去上学。一天下午,露丝回到宿舍,发现有个男人已闯进她的房间等着她。那人非礼未遂,恼羞成怒,用烤热的熨斗
One night in June 1977. Wichita, Kansas. The 47-year-old Ruth Finlay was at home with the phone ringing suddenly. Ruth’s husband, Eddie, is the financial secretary of a construction company who entered the hospital the day before for the suspected heart attack. Ruth had just picked up the phone and heard a man say, “Are you from Ruth Smirk from Fort Scott?” Ruth was startled and said, “Yes, yes.” This may be what old classmates. “I found a clipping,” the man went on to say, “cut off from the Scott Fort Tribune on October 15, 1946, with the title ’Porno Ironing High School Girl’. This female student is you, right? Give me money, or I’ll show you out. ”Ruth gasped, snapped the phone, but the memories came in full bloom. Ruth Smem grew up on a small farm in Missouri. At the age of 16, she moved to Fort Scott to go to school. One afternoon, Ruth returned to the dorm and found a man broke into her room waiting for her. The man was disrespectful, angry and hot with a hot iron