“Text me when you get home”

Julia Rose
3 min readAug 25, 2021

A phrase fraught.

Content warning: themes mentioning violence against women.

I could barely continue with the episode of “Valeria” on Netflix, because it opened like this.

Four girlfriends in downtown Madrid parting for the evening.

As soon as the first friend took a route down a dark alley and a man stepped into the foreground, I knew it.

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Julia Rose

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