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Josie Cormier from the novel Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult was guilty of killing her boyfriend, Matt Royston. She confessed to it when she went to court for Peter’s trial. She hadn’t told anyone about what she did for five months. Only one other person knew, because he watched her kill Matt and told her he wouldn’t tell anyone: Peter. Matt had been an abusive boyfriend, both mentally and physically. He had her trapped in their relationship by saying things to make her feel guilty, for example,”I don’t like sharing you. You can’t blame me for that.“ (Picoult, 227). He would constantly hurt her or have sex with her without consent and tell her he loved her afterwards, and even went as far as making it seem like he was committing suicide when

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