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Boys will be boys, the logic goes, and girls who cry foul are either nuts or sluts -- and should be avoided either way.

"I used to be real, real bad when I was in high school," she says. "But when you really look at it, years passed by and I matured over the years. People hear my name now and they still say stuff, but I don't care, because I know, at least I know."

After Libby graduated from Ozen, she enrolled at Lamar University, she says, but Granger was there, taking classes, popping up on campus, reminding her of what happened. Libby dropped out and started working full-time in retail, but she plans to go back to Lamar next summer, hopefully after all the criminal and civil trials are done.

Even then, she might not stay for very long.

"I just really want to get out of here," she says. "I just really want to get out of Beaumont."

She wants to transfer her credits to the University of Houston, she says, where she'll study to become an elementary school teacher.

"School is not what it used to be," she says. "How I hear my momma and my daddy talk, when he played football and my momma was slender and she was a cheerleader and everything, it was good back then. Teachers cared, you know, teachers were like parents. If you did something wrong, they would call home and let parents know. They would discipline you if they knew your momma…

"Now BISD, especially at the administration building, they want to keep everything hush-hush, and it shouldn't be like that over there."

Libby says she hasn't spoken to Granger since her accusations came out, but she knows it'll happen in court, where she plans to say:

"Can you just tell the truth so we all can just go home and everybody can go on with their life?"

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