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Michelle Remembers is a discredited 1980 book co-written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his psychiatric patient Michelle Smith. A best-seller, Michelle Remembers relied on the discredited practice of recovered-memory therapy to make sweeping, lurid claims about Satanic ritual abuse involving Smith, which contributed to the rise of the Satanic panic in the 1980s. While the book presents its claims as fact, and was extensively marketed on that basis at the time, no evidence was provided; all investigations into the book failed to corroborate any of its claims, with investigators describing its content as being primarily based on elements of popular culture and fiction that were popular at the time when it was written.

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Helen Matthews, real name probably Helen Matthew, also known by her pseudonym Mrs Graham, was a Scottish footballer, artist, and suffragette. Matthew is known as a leading player and team captain from the 1890s, and for recruiting the first black woman footballer, Emma Clarke.

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Janice \"Jan\" Melbourne Merrill is a retired American runner. She was the dominant long-distance runner of the middle 1970s, a notable front runner, her uniform with the large \"M\" on her chest would usually break away to an insurmountable lead in domestic meets. She was equally untouchable in self-promotion or dealing with the media, often deferring to her coach, Norm Higgins. At various points in time she held the American record in the 1500 meters during the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters. She lost other record opportunities because the only times she could get a decent race in the United States was against men.

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