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elves before falling into

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Mexican woman with a full-sle

beg you, I'm sti

lows start to rain down on me. On old brui

mutter, my body s

a few minutes, an entire night, I don't know. But when they're done, shoving at each ot

bleeding an

he warden if he lets inmat

. I wobble to my bed, to rest and recover from the agony of today. But an

" one of them whis

ble, that's what I'm doing. She's

anage. It's ridden with bugs and smells like sweat and spit, it's

smells like dri

n at me. I want to leave

ll give you a little water tomorrow" they laugh again. I don't understand what is funny about

e deserves it. These people, I barely kn

one cuckoo" one of them je

air and body. I never thought a group of c

rom them but someone comes up with th

e things they threw at me because they'd ask me to retrieve it like a dog and bri

t bored and eventually

n relief

mo

don't get out, I'll find a person who can. A p

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NEXT

turn away from the of

, but I guess when fueled by bribe mon

ds, and I nearly laugh. The moment I give them the statement th

not hap

yourself; we all want to resolve

ur sentence," he insists, and this time, I do laugh. The minute I offer a

nevitable physical intimidation, a last-ditch effort to make me talk, but it neve

ed at an empty table, and I can't shake the feeling th

ed with gravel, and it's absolutely fo

m yesterday's altercation, making it difficult to

hovers in front of my mouth. I look up to see an old

ays, motioning the s

y options. He's the first

is

h a shred of empathy left? Or

wants from me, but

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him fe