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Simpson Case Changed How America Sees Spousal Abuse

Associated Press

   In a letter that surfaced after her 1994 murder, Nicole Brown Simpson
   detailed the fear and violence that framed her marriage to O.J.
   Simpson, the charismatic football star who became a TV pitchman.

   Simpson gave her "disgusted" looks with each pound she gained in her
   first pregnancy in 1988 and "beat the holy hell" out of her a year
   later, when the couple told an X-ray lab she fell off a bike, she
   wrote. Three years later, on June 12, 1994, she and friend Ron Goldman
   were fatally stabbed outside her Los Angeles condominium as her two
   young children with Simpson slept inside.

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