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I felt like I had escaped, an unwilling celebrity, trying to make my way off of center stage. ” one rather manly woman fired at me. “She decides to spill it? They all do, you know. Just like the movies, kickin’ and screamin’, prayin’ for God to forgive them. I can assure you, God’s turned his back on this one,” she snickered. “You could be a rich man. You need someone to help you write the book? Here’s my card,” one guard said, pulling his identification out of his pocket. “I’m a writer, like you.

Keep your feet on the floor and your hands above the table at all times. ” Pointing to the top right corner of the room, he explained, “You will be monitored via the camera. You will not be recorded or monitored by audio. I doubt seriously that there will be any conversation going on in here anyway. No matter what we do to try and talk with her, she still won’t say a word. ” “I’m not…” “Mr. Pratt,” he said, looking me straight in the eye. “She’s set to die at midnight. At this point, she can’t be anymore executed for killing one more person.

I don’t know,” my dad snapped in response to my stuttering and tears. “The damn thing’s just gone. Be a man. ” “Oh, come on,” my mom sneered. “You don’t miss him. ” Maybe I saw my parents as thoughtless as the inhumanity that governed Allison Porter’s future; maybe I’ve always been enraged over their treatment of me and the loss of my dog, Skippy. If mocking crows escorted me down the prison’s winding egress, I took no notice. Hope was merely a deterrent to allow me to drive at a speed that would have me home that much sooner.

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