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put this robe on her?”

She put the robe on her. I waited a few
minutes. They opened the door up. I went in. And Lisa
was standing in the middle of the floor with the robe on.

And, Mmm, see, I’d seen this girl several times
before that and I never saw her do anything violent. I
didn’t particularly expect anything violent. But before I
could —— before I could even say anything, I was going to
ask her to sit on the bed so we could sweep the glass off
the floor, she had no shoes on, right, and clean the room
up, right, she hit me with her fist. I don’t know if it
was her fist or her hand, but it hit me like this
(indicating), she stepped forward and whacked me one.

I had a tie on. She wrapped her left hand in my
tie and started pulling the tie.

And I had a pen in this pocket (indicating),
this happened kind of suddenly, and the pen came out, and
while I was down like this, Joan was standing to my right,
and she said, “She has got your pen.”

And I looked up and I saw the pen here

(indicating), she was over there, the pen was like this
(indicating) and it was coming.

‘And I -- that is when my attention went to the
pen, right. And at the same time I was struggling to get
the pen away, Joan was trying to unwrap my tie. And then

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