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Over the course of the 25 years that Oprah Winfrey tapedThe Oprah Show,she devoted 217 episodes to the subject of sexual abuse. And as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse herself, the issue is very much close to her heart. On Wednesday, Winfrey taped an interview with two of the …

“It was a dark and stormy night.” That’s the first sentence of Madeline L’Engle’s 1962 fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time, a smoke-screen opening salvo that doesn’t begin to prep readers for what lies ahead in this beloved kids’ book: tesseracts and shape-shifting biddies, shadowy forces and M.I.A. fathers, interdimensional …