An Elderly Woman Hired Me After Prison Until She Asked Why I Was There

door and a backyard with a maple tree.

And I was married to Trevor Mallory, a man I’d thought of as my closest friend.

When I walked out of that prison gate, everything I owned fit inside a clear plastic bag. Two pairs of jeans. Three shirts. Some underwear. A hairbrush. A paperback book with the cover torn off.

And seventy-five dollars in release money, in an envelope with my name typed on it.

That was it. That was what was left of my whole life.

Nobody came to pick

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