In one of your books, you describe a moment in which you wonder why he's dead and why you're alive. In the early twenties, i was selling drugs but wasn't committed to doing harm to people. And so there was a ime when a guy new and some other i don't know who was with him, but it was more than one person. They tried to break into my house; they didn't get in because a neighbor called the police on them. He turned out to be a convicted murderer twice or three times over. So really the part that connected to maudle about him is his attempt to defame me after I got caught with a gun.
Mitchell S. Jackson is a journalist and author. His profile of Ahmaud Arbery, ”Twelve Minutes and a Life,” won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
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