Can You Hear Me?

John Tan found out that he was on a list to be released from prison this morning. He tried to call his friend Arty, but she couldn't hear him in the background of her conversation with another inmate. The news started to make its way around without him having to say anything at first. And now too, your question, initial question, what? What is that like? There's happiness and there's relief - we're not as invisible as we sometimes think. It felt like y holy crop.