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Rape danger time: from the files of Linda Fairstein. There's a time of night that sexual predators favor, but it's not just the hours on the clock. It's also a set of circumstances that converge to make you vulnerable to attack. Former Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein explains.(REAL-LIFE READS)

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There were few things that could have shattered Rita's" bliss bubble when she walked out of her boyfriend Tony's apartment last spring. It was her 19th birthday, and even though Tony had fractured his ankle playing football earlier that week, he had surprised her by cooking an elegant dinner, baking her a birthday cake, and giving her an iPod loaded with "their songs." Rita kissed him good night shortly before midnight and headed off on foot to the apartment she shared with her widowed mother, just a few blocks away in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.

Reliving the romantic evening in her head, with one of her favorite songs blasting through the earphones, she ...

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