‘If you can get June to forgive you at this meeting, Shay, maybe you don’t have to give up your heart. Maybe you’ll feel good about connecting with her again, and then we can get her to talk to the governor on your behalf to commute your sentence to life in prison—’ ‘If you do that,’ Shay interrupted, ‘I will kill myself.’ My jaw dropped. ‘Why?’ ‘Because,’ he said, ‘I have to get out of here.’ At first I thought that he was talking about the prison, but then I saw he was clutching his own arms, as if the penitentiary he was referring to was his own body. And that, of course, made me think of
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