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It could be that nothing happened, and she made it up.

But she didn't go to the same school as the boys, maybe she didn't know who attacked her, and only later attached the name of Kavanaugh to the assailant.

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Indeed. Another possibility, far from unimaginable in our times, is that she is genuinely appalled that a Justice Kavanaugh could threaten Roe v. Wade and other examples of what is for two days left SCOTUS holy writ, and it is worth making someone something up to prevent this from happening.

This, I think, in combination with the unexpected agreement of the Republican majority to hear her testimony so quickly but with no extraneous content, might explain the facts as we have them.