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Book Review of The Stranger Beside Me

The Stranger Beside Me
The Stranger Beside Me
Author: Ann Rule
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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At the time that I read this book, I had just moved into a 'ghetto' area near the school I was going to and began having problems with a peeping tom and other weirdness peculiar to ghettos. I lived alone in a ground floor apartment. I had to call the police on several occasions, usually at three in the morning. I don't live there anymore, but to this day I never leave the house without my pepper spray, and so many times while walking down the street, I remember some of the wisdom Ann spoke of in her book: look like you know what you're doing and where you're going. Don't look like a person someone might want to target, because you just never know.