Episode 9: Eighteen Women

In this episode of Through the Forest, and in honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Jennifer explores a dark chapter in the history of Iceland. She revisits Thingvellir National Park and the tragic story behind her song Eighteen Women from the album Purgatory Road, inspired by eighteen women who were drowned there in the 16th and 17th centuries.  Through conversations with Þingvellir park ranger and historian Gunnar Grímsson and bestselling Icelandic author Þóra Karítas Árnadóttir, author of the award-winning novel Blóðberg, she reflects on the parallels between the injustices faced by women then and the violence women continue to face today. The episode closes with Silva’s song Eighteen Women. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:09

Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Through the Forest. I'm your host, Jennifer Silva, and I'm so happy to be with you here today. I want to thank you guys for listening because guess what? We're on the ninth episode. I can't believe it. I can't believe I actually did this. So thanks for being here with me on this journey through my forest. Um, this is awesome. We're about to get a thousand downloads to this podcast, which is insane. And I'm so excited to keep sharing my songs and the stories behind my songs, ghost stories and dark histories that inspire me. And uh yeah, I'm just I'm extremely grateful for you guys. I couldn't do this without you guys listening and sharing and liking and following and doing all the things. So please, please keep doing that. I really appreciate it because I have a ton of goals this year. And um, I think together we can we can reach those goals. Um, I'm excited because this is a special year, guys. This is the year of the fire horse, and uh I can feel the momentum. You know, there's a lot of bad shit happening in the world right now. That path through the forest is getting pretty dark. And we're frankly surrounded by the wolves. I can hear them howling. I know you can too. Um, and I'm trying to focus on the waterfalls. I'm trying to focus on spending time with the people I love, spending time working on my music and my passions and being creative and doing things that are meaningful. And I know that that is the way through these dark times. You know, the year of the fire horse only comes around once every 60 years. So I know I won't experience another firehorse year in my lifetime. So that means I need to take advantage of this energy, of this change. And I definitely am. I am jumping on the back of my fire horse and riding her right through 2026 and beyond. And I suggest you do too. We need her speed, her stamina, her determination, and need for freedom more than ever. It couldn't come at a more perfect time, frankly. With the world the way it is, we need change, period. And um I think women are going to be at the forefront of that change. And so, in honor of Women's History Month, I have decided to share the story behind my song, 18 Women, which was inspired by a trip I took to Iceland just about 10 years ago. I learned about a very, very dark period of time in the 16th and 17th centuries at a place called Thingvilir National Park. And so today I'm going to tell you the story behind the 18 women, and I'm also going to share conversations that I had with two incredible Icelanders, Gunnar Grimson, a park ranger at Thingvilir, and historian, as well as Thora Karitas, an actress, director, producer, educator, activist, and best-selling author of a book about the very subject. Iceland is a very unique and incredibly beautiful place. It's famous for its dramatic, contrasting landscapes of active volcanoes and vast glaciers. It has the Blue Lagoon and powerful waterfalls and the northern lights. So it is a very, very spectacular place. Very, very beautiful. One of the things that I discovered when I was there is that it has 24-hour daylight in the summers, also known as the midnight sun. And in the winters, some areas have something called the polar night, which is 24 hours of darkness, mostly in December and January. But all winter, it's very limited daylight, maybe four to five hours per day. That is why you can see the Aurora Borealis so well, because it gets so dark. And it really is just a very, very stunning, unique place. But one thing that I discovered while I was there is that with all that beauty comes a very dark history. When I traveled to Iceland, I had the privilege of visiting Thingvalir National Park. And that is about 45 minutes by car from Reykjavik, which is the capital. I visited in August when the weather is mild. It was probably 40 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. So there wasn't so much snow, but really lush, green, mossy fields in the park and all around. At least where we traveled to. The park is gorgeous. It has rock formations, rivers, rapids. There's a huge rift there in the landscape. And that's where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet and they bisect Iceland, causing this massive rock wall. That spot is where the Vikings held their courts in the 16th and 17th centuries, and even before that. Their parliament would stand at the highest point of that rock wall, and the people would gather below once a year for a week or two, and they called this place Law Rock, of course, translated into English. This is where they dealt with disputes and grievances, crimes and punishments. I learned there that if two men were in a dispute, they would fight it out at the gatherings. The loser would be banished from the communities. Now, other punishments for various crimes included lashing, branding, bruising, amputation, hanging, beheading, and drowning. You can feel the heaviness alongside the grandeur. It is a wild place. And that history is harsh. The park is so big and so majestic. And there are just waterfalls and rapids and mossy fields everywhere. It's like right out of Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones. They had to have filmed there because it it looks exactly like that. It looks like trolls and elves live in the countryside. No joke. But sometimes beauty belies. The day I visited, I walked through the land reveling in its glory. I was breathing in the crisp air and feeling water droplets from the nearby falls and rapids. And as I strolled along, I came upon a breathtakingly beautiful natural pool. It was surrounded by moss-covered lava rocks. The water was crystal clear. I wanted to go in it. Honestly, it was that gorgeous. It was, there were wildflowers, and I don't know. It just, I was taken aback by the beauty. I frankly, I really was, and I was mesmerized. So now I'm I'm kind of taking it all in, and I look over to my right and I see that there's this placard set up a little ways away. So I walk over to the placard to read about the history. And that's when I learned that that beautiful body of water was actually called the drowning pool. In that very spot, eighteen women had been drowned after the courts sentenced them to die. Eighteen women were put to death for various alleged crimes like murder, witchcraft, infanticide, incest, or adultery. Now remember, during those Viking times, many of the men would go off to sea for months and months at a time, or out into the country and be gone for a very, very long time. Sometimes years. And the women were left to raise the children, tend to the animals, and survive sometimes in 24-hour darkness, with no knowledge if their men would ever be returning home. Sometimes they would have to do what they needed to do to survive. Sometimes things were done to them without their consent. But if the men did come home only to find them pregnant by another man or having had another child, or having just made tough choices to ensure their survival, the women would be arrested and tried at Law Rock by the Icelandic Parliament. I couldn't believe how dark that history was, and was amazed by the contrast between the location's beauty and what actually transpired there. It felt like haunted ground. Iceland is a country of extremes. I would love to read a quote from the author Hannah Kent, who wrote an incredible book called Burial Rights about the very last woman executed in Iceland, not at Thingvalier. She was not drowned, but this book is sort of in the same vein of this story. So if you want to actually read a firsthand account in English, I would recommend Hannah's book. But this is a quote from her. Every chance I got, I was writing down different verses, different lines. I didn't want to forget what I felt in that moment. The shock, the darkness, the compassion that I had for those 18 women. I kept thinking about the children that they left behind, the lovers devastated by these convictions, the names that were forgotten, and the lives that were disgraced and wasted. For what? It's the same old story of what we're seeing in the news now. Women being oppressed and controlled, women being tortured and killed. Girls too. At the end of the podcast, I'm gonna sing my song for you, 18 Women, which is very special to me. You can find it on my album Purgatory Road. But before we get to that, let me introduce you now to Gunnar Grimson, a park ranger and historian from Thingvalir.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Well, yeah, my name is Gunnar, and I am a park ranger here in Thinkwedlir. Uh, I started here in 2014, so I've been here on and off and been uh a full staff member for the last few years. And uh what I do a lot is to uh collect all of the the names of the the place names, the toponyms of Thinkwedlir, and then trying to uh make a very comprehensive uh explanation of it. So Treking Karhilur, which is the name of this pool, it's usually called Drowning Pool in English. So it's it's a part of this river uh Aksarao, which flows into this this big gorge, as you called Almanakyo. So it's it's a very uh dynamic place. The nature is always changing or very slowly through the ages, and and this is the division point between the North American and the Eurasian tectonic plates, simply put, and it was also a historical site.

SPEAKER_03 13:06

No single place epitomizes the history of Iceland better than Thingvalir. It's translated as Assembly Plains. And as we talked about, Iceland's General Assembly was established there. Uh that was around 930 AD, and it continued to convene there until 1798. Many major events in the history of Iceland have taken place at Thingvilir. So it's held in very high regard by all Icelanders. Today, Thingvilir is a protected national shrine, and they passed a law in 1928, basically ensuring that it would always be the property of the Icelandic nation. Now, the Viking period is said to have started around the year 800 AD. Um, and during that time, the Nordic people settled far and wide from, you know, the eastern shores of North America to the Mediterranean to the Arctic Ocean. And the settlement of Iceland was one part of that extensive migration of people from Norway. Uh basically, land shortages and internal disputes in Norway were factors that led many people to just pick up their belongings and sail across the sea to Iceland. Now, eventually, Iceland sent a representative back to Norway to sort of learn the customs, learn the laws, so that they could use that as a model for their new society. And so after that representative returned in 930 AD, the chieftains decided that Thingvalir would be the location of the assembly. It was well located in terms of the main tracks and the main population centers. So it was just easy for most to attend the assembly. And people would come once a year for like two weeks and hear all the decrees and whatnot, and they would deal with the disputes and dole out the punishments.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

And the people would meet here every year. People would spend two weeks at the time, just 14 days uh going on and on and on. The place we believe is uh Lowperk, or often called the Law Rock in English. It's uh like a circular uh podium, a ruin on top of this steep slope that may have been uh a bit of a big speech podium, so to say. So someone would stand there and recite all of the laws of the country, and and since nobody could read at the time they would have to gather here in one place to listen, so everyone could know and be a witness of what rules were uh in effect here. The lore of how it began it was actually a murder. So there was a landowner who owned the place here, who had killed one of his slaves or freedmen, and he threw him in one of these rifts here. So whatever the reason behind that, we have no idea. But but this was considered to be a pretty bad thing. And the the settlers of Iceland, who came mostly from Norway and other Scandinavians, North British Isles, they they had carried this uh thing system. So the the English word thing is derived from these meetings, so it just means a gathering assemblage. So they they had already established some sort of sort of a local thing site uh close to the Reykjavik area, and uh the landowner in Thinkwitley was probably tracked there, and his land was confiscated. And in a poetic way, I would say it was this place was transformed from a crime scene into a place of uh law and justice.

SPEAKER_03 16:41

So the Icelandic parliament lasted about 800 years. And in the late 1500s to the 1600s, that's when they began doing executions at the park. And that is when we see that they begin referring to the drowning pool. Gunner told me about 70 people were ultimately executed at Thingvalir. Many more were executed in their local districts and municipalities. But listen to what he had to say about the various styles of execution.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

So women, they basically all of them, they they were drowned. And it was almost like a uh a women uh style of execution. Men were mostly pee-headed, uh, but thieves, they were hanged, they were they were had uh behave differently from from other people. And and then lastly, we had some uh magicians or wizards, they they were burnt, and I think we at least nine of them. And uh you you can say we almost had it wrong because everyone in Europe, most people in Europe, they were burning women uh for for witchcraft or sorcery, but uh it was the opposite here. Interesting. I think we only burn I think we only burnt a couple of women here, but uh the majority were men who were mostly using some uh runic inscriptions to try to do something uh that would not be considered uh a bad thing today.

SPEAKER_03 18:09

Now that we better understand the history of the Icelandic Parliament and Thingvalier National Park, let's talk about the women. I would love now to introduce you to Icelandic actor, director, writer, educator, activist, and producer, Thora Karitas. Thora studied at the Weber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has played numerous roles in theater as well as in film and television. She's been nominated for several Icelandic television awards. She's produced successful television series, and she's written two best-selling and award-winning books, one of which is a historical novel about the very first woman drowned at Thingvalir in the drowning pool. I am so honored to have her on the podcast today.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

My name is Tora Caritas Arnado Tir, and I am an Icelandic actress and director mostly, but I've written two books as well, and yeah, did some studies in creative writing. And the first book was a nonfiction book about my mother called Mar. And that book was published in 2020, and then in 2025, I was drawn to the women I think Vedler who were drowned, drowned uh in 1618. The first drowning was, and I wrote a book about the first woman who was drowned, I think Vedler, and her name was Thurtis Haltostofdir, and the book title is uh Brolberg in Icelandic, uh, which has a double meaning as well, because it's the word for uh time or thyme, uh the the flower.

SPEAKER_03 19:59

Oh, time, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

Yeah, that that's what it is. The word is that, but it also has blood in it and park, which is like a stone or mountains, and uh, if you've been to think that there it's a huge drift there and magical surrounding, and so it's kind of the blood leaking there on the stones there and the mountains. So that's the double meaning of the title. And the book was a huge success in Iceland, it sold really well, and uh and it's being taught now in in four um colleges.

SPEAKER_03 20:36

So unfortunately, Thora's book has not been translated into English yet. So I was unable to read the book firsthand, but I was able to ascertain the plot from my research online and obviously through my conversation with Thora. Here's a quick synopsis of the book's plot. Please note, Thora's book is a work of historical fiction, so some changes have been made to the historical record for the sake of the story. But this is the plot. The story is set in Iceland around the year 1608. A young woman named Thordis Halderstater, living in the northern region of Iceland, swears an oath that she is a pure virgin after rumors surface that she has a sexual relationship with her brother-in-law. Five months later, she gives birth to a child. The authorities accuse her of blood shame. And blood shame was basically the crime of having a sexual relationship with a relative. And that relative could be as uh close as a father daughter, or it could be a cousin, or even brother in law. Any of that was considered a crime.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

And no one knows. If it was a boy or a girl in my book, it's a boy, and that was just a choice. And after that, she was guilty of something because during that period of time, you couldn't have a baby outside of marriage, and you couldn't have a baby with someone who was related to you. And with the fact that he was married to his her sister, that was like blood relation, even though it was like when people got married, they their blood was one, so they had the same blood. So everyone who was uh related to you was also related to your husband, so that's why it was a blood shame.

SPEAKER_03 22:42

And it was a crime because any woman giving birth after claiming that she was a virgin um is seen as having broken her oath. And, you know, considering that this now was her brother-in-law, that was considered incest. Now, in the plot of the book, this is where she takes some liberties and she interjects this gang rape that also happens to the poor woman. And she did that on purpose to show the questions around this pregnancy, which is what was happening with all of these women. You know, someone is accusing her of this blood shame crime, but we don't know if it was in fact an actual adulterous relationship or if she had an outside experience that also could have caused her pregnancy. So under this pressure of the law, the young woman has to confess who is the father. If she refuses, she's subjected to torture. And that's exactly what happened in real life and in the book. This poor woman, Thordis, was tortured until she confessed that it was her brother-in-law. But of course, as soon as she confesses and the torture is over, she retracts her her confession. She says that that wasn't the case, but it's now too late. And for the next 10 years, which we don't know why, but for 10 years, she rides from her home region in the north across the country to the plains of Thingbalir. And that is so she can appear before the National Assembly. A decade passes before the verdict is reached. Eventually, Thordis was executed. She was drowned in the drowning pool, also known as Drekengardho, in 1618. Just the very first of 18 women to suffer that fate under the laws of Iceland.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

It took 10 years, like from her giving birth to a baby until she was drowned. And that was for me, that was like I had a lot of questions about that. Why did it take such a long time? Because usually they could maybe breastfeed their babies and then they would be drowned, or they would be drowned immediately. The feeling is that the people at home wanted to protect her. She was kind of an upper class lady, and usually the upper class people they managed to maybe get away with their crimes. So the bishop of Iceland, he was trying to protect her. And also she had some cousins who were lawyers, and they were all trying to protect her. And they were both sentenced to death in the end. But she was drowned, and he had already escaped Iceland and managed to sail to England, where he lived for the rest of his life. How classic.

SPEAKER_03 26:01

The woman's put to death, and the guy lives out the rest of his life in peace. I mean, is this unfair or what? And that's the whole point of me sharing this story. These women were put to death in very, very uncertain circumstances, and we don't know who was guilty, who was not, and it certainly wasn't justice.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

Also, the drowning, it was like that was also something that I thought about a lot, how it was done done. And the book, actually, if you if you touch the cover, it's um a canvas, and that's because uh the executioner they they put them into canvas bags, the whole body, and they tied a rope around her waist, and then they were thrown into the abyss or off a rocky cliff, like from a top of a rocky cliff, and then the executioner they held them down with a stick, and so they were held down as well on top of being thrown into it. And then also what was like quite shocking to read about is that sometimes they were just dragged uh after well, like when they had uh made sure that they had died, they just threw them randomly because there were a lot of cracks in the area, so they were just thrown into the earth because they weren't able, like the priest couldn't bless them or like they were just thrown somewhere like trash.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

And and and in a way, that's also a punishment for the women, uh, even a deeper form of punishment than the actual uh drowning, because it would ensure that they would not get to heaven. And it's the same was done for the alleged wizards and uh and thieves and the men who were beheaded. So that the men who lost their hats, they they the hats were put on a pike or on a stake, or said put somewhere to to uh to display, to to show people what happens if you disobey Allah. And uh the same goes for the alleged thieves, just ditched somewhere in some little cracks and thoughts in the ground.

SPEAKER_03 28:10

How they treated the women after they were executed and what they did to the bodies is part of the injustice, it's part of the tragedy, and it's part of the disrespect and dishonor that they gave those poor women. Thora's story explores gendered injustice, the interplay between law, religion, and community norms, and the minimal agency of women in the face of institutional power. It asks how far a society can hold one person, particularly a woman, accountable for a transgression that she may not even have had any control over. And it uses a historically grounded case to reflect on broader issues of sexual violence, shame, punishment, and the voice of the victim. And that's what I love about it. It's giving a voice to Thortis. May she rest in peace. As I mentioned earlier, in researching the history of these 18 women, I read an incredible book called Burial Rights by Hannah Kent. Thora recommended it to me, and it is written in English. So I recommend it to all of you. It isn't about the 18 women, but it is about the real life woman who was last executed in Iceland. Her name was Agnes Magnus Dutter, and she was beheaded for her role in a murder. And it is just a fantastic, thrilling novel that I highly recommend to all of you. If you want to kind of get a sense of the time period, the landscape, the way women were treated, and the thrilling storyline, I think you'll really love it. But Hannah Kent says in the book, on page 351, that she hopes the readers are prompted to consider the fallibility of any form of history or storytelling, composed by humans capable of bias, self-interest, and the influence of prevailing ideologies. For every story we hear, there is another side that is maybe equally subjectively true. In telling the history of these 18 women, we can draw parallels to the women of today.

SPEAKER_01 30:49

Maybe we think of the reproductive rights of people right now versus back in the day. Of course, there are always progresses and setbacks in the current day, but this was uh it was not a good time to be a woman at all. And and most of these women, or almost all of them, uh they were drowned because of something related to childbirth.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

Today, like in modern times, we would look if we look at abortions, that's like uh they are allowed in Iceland, but uh they're not allowed everywhere. And if we look at it, uh these women were drowned because they were trying to uh hide pregnancies or getting rid of the babies. So, in a way, that's something that I thought about a lot, because that gives women like the freedom of their lives and bodies if they have that option in some cases. And let's say if they are raped and they don't want to keep the child, or like there can be so many different reasons. Even though these things happened in 1618, they point at some uh issues that we still have today. And so I think the rights of women they are never for free, like then we can never relax in a way. These women they didn't have the chance of preventing uh pregnancies or abortions. These crimes that are not crimes today, like these women were drowned for the only crime that they were pregnant. And if they wouldn't have been pregnant, no one could have um proved that they had been with someone who was married or outside of marriage, but it was always the women because you could not hide the pregnancy. And if you did, you you could have been beheaded or drowned for the reason that you tried to hide it or that you killed the baby because you were trying to prevent being beheaded or being drowned.

Performance of Eighteen Women

SPEAKER_03 32:48

As Gunnar and Thora both pointed out, women are slowly losing our rights to govern our own body with abortion bans and restrictions, including the criminalization of pregnancy loss, the restriction of mailing abortion medications, and even the threat of eliminating access to contraception. There are so many crimes against women happening still today. For example, rates of violence against women remain very high, with one in eight women aged 15 to 49 experiencing partner violence in the past year. One in eight. And some countries, such as Russia and Hungary, they have reduced protections for women by decriminalizing certain forms of domestic violence. Sexual violence has been used as a tool of war. And in many countries, there is a systematic exclusion of women from public life. For example, there is Taliban-style erasure. Countries like Afghanistan, where the Taliban has enacted over a hundred laws barring women from education, most jobs, free movement, and even public speaking. In some countries, there are strict guardianship laws requiring women to have male permission to travel. I mean, we could talk all day about inequality in pay gaps, unpaid labor, the AI divide, job risks. I mean, women are continually earning significantly less than men, with black and Latino women in the US facing even greater disparities. Women also spend 3.2 times more on unpaid work, like childcare, cleaning, caring for the elderly than men do. And I have to bring up a horrible practice that's still occurring today in this world, which is female genital mutilation. It is performed on four million girls annually. Think about that. Four million girls are having this inhumane, barbaric, I want to say operation, but it doesn't even feel like an operation. I think it's like just a torture that is happening to girls. Uh, and it needs to stop. And I I would really recommend that you pick up another book that I read years ago called Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauzea Kacinja. The book follows her early life in Togo, Africa, and it's her escaping, female genital mutilation, and the process of fighting for asylum in the United States, which in itself was hell. She escaped hell to live through hell just for her freedom. And it's it's something that people don't talk about because it's uncomfortable, but it exists today on four million girls annually. And we need to educate ourselves so that we can stop it. The justice systems all over the world are failing women left and right. Everywhere we turn, we hear another injustice or exploitation. And one that's very, very current is the deep fake AI pornography. Men are creating pornography with imagery of women, and it is without their consent. And all of a sudden, you could turn around and be the star of some porno film without you having even participated in any way. I mean, how insane is that? So there are many people, including Paris Hilton, surprisingly, who are taking that fight to Congress to ensure justice for the women who have been abused in that way. And most recently, and so disturbingly, with the release of the Epstein files, we are really finally talking about the problem of sex trafficking. One of the biggest problems that I see is that we're not believing these women and these girls when they finally get the courage to speak out and say what has been happening to them. Somehow we need a video or we need some real proof that they were abused in such horrific ways. We can't just say, wow, I believe you. Well, that's something that we can all change. And I know mostly women are listening to this podcast, and we all understand and we all are on the same page. But there are many, many people out there that are in denial that this is actually happening. But listen to the statistics. 4.8 million people are sex trafficked globally each year. With 1.2 million of those people being children. In fact, 600,000 people go missing in the US alone every year. That's insane. With many of those people, most of those people and children being sex trafficked. How is it that we can even really talk about anything else besides that? But it just goes to show how desensitized we are and how distracted we are. All by design, guys. All by design. Don't give in to that. Don't let them win. We've got to do something. We've got to use our dollars, we've got to strike, we've got to boycott, we have to do everything in our power to stop these atrocities and abuses all over the world. As I mentioned, the forest is pretty damn dark. And uh, and yeah, it can be overwhelming. But if we educate ourselves and we come together to fight these controlling practices, the misogynistic speech, the harassment, the unnatural beauty standards, and the cyberbullying that women endure on a daily basis, maybe things can actually change in this world. We are women, we are powerful, we are strong, and we are mothers, we are capable of birthing humans into this world. Let us protect those humans at all costs and do what needs to be done. And we can do it. We can do it, but we have to do it together. Let me end with another quote from Burial Rites, page 29. Agnes says, I remain quiet, I am determined to close myself to the world, to tighten my heart and hold on to what has not yet been stolen from me. I cannot let myself slip away. I will hold when I am inside and keep my hands tight all around the things I have seen and heard and felt. We can understand how Agnes must feel so defeated, so desperate. We cannot let go of these histories. We cannot let ourselves slip into disassociation and acceptance of the kind of control that is happening all over the world right now. Still. I hope that this story, these women, these 18 women can give you all strength for the fight that is to come. I want to say thank you so much to my incredible guests today, Gunnar Grimson and Thora Karitas. I appreciate their time and their expertise and their willingness to share some of the darkest histories of their own country, in hopes that these kinds of cruelties are never committed again. May the 18 women killed at Thingvalir National Park in Iceland rest in peace. Let us never forget their stories, their names, and this history. I would love to play my song 18 Women for you now. I've decided not to strip the song and play it acoustically for this episode, only because I think that the recorded version is the most powerful version of this song. And I think if you listen to the full production, you'll hear what I'm trying to say and the energy that I was trying to convey with this song. So I hope you enjoy it. You can stream this off of my album, Purgatory Road. This is Eighteen Women.

SPEAKER_02 44:02

To the dance Iceland must call the broth Christoph is the water from the heart to the confused lonely eyes of Anna Come to entry Love sentence to die Violence and civilized beauty winter snow cause question cause for midnight starts shade the names shade the eyes have those eighteen on my breath please spare us your goodbyes Lee Bands that are not tied listen to her cries you T Blue If you drop me you still have to touch me if you drown me You still have to touch me if you drown me You still have to touch me if you drown me You still have to touch me Thank you all for listening to today's episode and to my song Eighteen Women It was an honor and I really truly hope that it helps to inspire the powers that be take a stand and do what is right.

SPEAKER_03 47:44

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