created a small scholarship fund for people affected by wrongful convictions and legal injustice. Not grand. Not flashy. Just real help for people whose lives had been quietly stolen the way mine had been.
Because I learned something in the hardest way possible:
Some people don’t just take your money.
They take your time.
Your relationships.
Your trust.
And the only way to truly win isn’t to watch them fall—
it’s to rise without becoming them.
Sometimes I still get angry thinking about Linda’s face when she closed the door.
