A week later, I had my hearing, and I waited like a kid on Christmas to hear the news. Two months after that, the board made the decision to release me back into the world, and two more months went by before I was receiving fist bumps, handshakes, and even hugs from the friends I'd made inside. I promised to write them letters, and I made them promise to come see me if and when they got out themselves. And then, there at the end of the line, on his day off, was Harry. In an instant, a flash of memory came rushing in from nearly ten years ago. I had been much younger and scrawnier and way, way,
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