I began a campaign that consumed my entire life. I wrote letters to the Governor, the parole board, and even the President. I gathered testimonials from everyone who knew the good man he had become.
Our children, now grown, stood by him too, telling the authorities about the father who worked two jobs to support them. We weren’t asking for his crimes to be erased, only for his redemption to be recognized.
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The day of the parole hearing arrived, and the tension in the room was suffocating. We had to prove that forty years of being a model citizen outweighed a prison escape from a lifetime ago.
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