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Confessions of an Innocent Man by David R. Dow

Confessions of an Innocent Man

by David R. Dow
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  • Apr 9, 2019, 304 pages
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  • Mar 2020, 320 pages
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I say, See you around, Your Honors.

Neither one of them laughs, but I do, just a little hint of a chuckle. Your Honors. I do still amuse myself.

I drop the rest of my cake into a plastic trash container I'll empty tomorrow or the next day, then I exit the open steel door, listen to it shut like a bank vault, turn the three bolts, and walk back upstairs. It takes me a while. I've gotten a bit out of shape, my knee is bad, and I've been feeling under the weather.

Also, their prison is six stories underground.

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From Confessions of an Innocent Man by David R Dow published by Dutton, an imprint of The Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2019 by David R Dow

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