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've made up

he plate of cherries a maid had

on't regret yo

...this is real life, and my family can never fall-unlike yours", she added condescendingly. "I will co

bitterly. "W

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tate-resigning myself to fate-r

t to head upstairs when the light turned on. I

". He said worriedly, th

t everything...but you should

hat if someone has to take the fall for

let you do i

ong enough to survive this Father", I said, almost cho

father should be the one protectin

carry this burden

n't let yo

up for negoti

shouldn't be you, you don't deserve th

said, battling with my own emotions, "but someone has to

a soft squeeze

need your sleep". I said

-

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as 7:

what it was. Having already made up my mind, I cam

ir faces because I wasn't th

You have come to arrest Ford? Well here I am!", I said, str

ancial mismanagement that the investigators claimed to have found had to be accounted for. Some

ar, following

w Mom had been wailing

to yourself, please". She turned to Dad. "George

eyes, I comforted her. "Don't worry Mother, wipe your tears",

racked from the tears he ha

and turned to sign the statem

courthouse. Reporters were everywhere, scampering ar

to take the fal

ntend to surv

end of your f

said nothing as I was l

and we were driven far off into the

and forests as we sped past them. My heart was shatte

itentiary. The officer asked us to arrange ourselve

d wires on them. Security patrolled e

, not just from my freedom, but from the life I once had. I was alive but dead, the

f the prison wall is no longer existent. You are to obey every rule in here. You will not speak unless you are asked to speak. You will not

resp

lear?" He a

ded, some weakly,

s he reached for his baton and struck the inmate close to him. "I said. Is. That. C

we quickly cha

idely, exposing his brownish set of teeth that

more like it, n

a hall where we would change

olting. Another prisoner noticed how I pushed the food aside, so he rus

gust

was to stay with five other inmates, making u

warden walked to the front of my cell and called out. "Inmate 7148. Inm

ked at themselves puzz

ell gate, looked at each one of us as if sear

one deaf?" h

one of the inmates with a thi

mouth before I shut it up for you!" The warden fired bac

my apparel. And

adley Ford anymore within th

re...I am

48, you respond by saying yes sir!

remaine

the air, and asked again, with venom lace

I strained and manage

ving", he sai

llway when he told me to stop. "Wait

ho? I wo

him what was going on, but he q

zzled. My heart thumped violently in my chest

om where I was standing opened slowly, and wh