They stole my life before they ever stole my freedom. By the time the cell door slammed, the world had already tried and sentenced me in every headline, every whisper, every investor call that went on without me. Four years later, the state finally stamped the word “innocent” on the same file they’d once used to bury me, but the apology came too late for my company, my marriage, my sister, my father’s funeral. What survived was smaller, harder: the part of me that kept scribbling on commissary pads, that circled numbers until they bled meaning, that believed every crooked ledger line had an author. I didn’t know it then, but that stubborn little flame was the rea… Continues…
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