TAIPEI - While she was alive, Ms Iyang Apay would never voluntarily speak of the horrible things she went through as a 15-year-old girl living on Taiwan's picturesque east coast.
She turned away groups of volunteers who visited her at her village in Hualien County in the 1990s, fearing that they would expose the secret that she had tucked away for decades.
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