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If you were one of the two women found that day, or if you recognize yourself in this story, you are not what was done to you You are reading this in a quiet room, probably alone, and something in the news this week made the back of your neck go hot. Maybe it was the photograph of the hotel on Papermill Drive. Maybe it was the description of an undercover agent posing as a fourteen-year-old. Maybe it was the name of the man the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says was a former youth baseball director. Maybe it was simply the word “Knoxville” — your Knoxville, the same interstate exit where you used to check in for work you did not choose, in a room that was not yours, with money you never saw. You are not “in the life.” The life was something that happened to you. The difference matters in law as much as it matters in your body. Federal civil rights law, Tennessee statute, and decades of human-trafficking case law all start from the same premise: a person cannot consent to being sold, and a buyer cannot use the word “consent” as a shield when the seller…