“This is that story. Not the arrest — that's just where the story pauses to catch its breath. The real story is everything before. The grief that made me vulnerable. The society that made me powerful. The power that made me monstrous. The love that made me human again. And the murder I did not commit but cannot prove I didn't, because in this country, truth is not what happened — truth is what can be demonstrated in court by a man in a black coat who charges by the hour.”
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