"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."

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"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."

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"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."

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"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."

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