“If I had identified the correct person, would Teresa Halbach be alive today?” As Penny knows, that question is unanswerable. Nobody can say what the course of history would have been if her life and Avery’s had never intersected. And she knows, too, that she will have to find a way to live without that answer, and without the answer to many other questions about why the prosecution of her assault went so terribly awry. This is what makes Penny’s story so remarkable: she is able to live both with and without the truth. That is exactly what overcoming denial calls on us to do. Sometimes in life
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