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Anthony Schneider
A friend mentioned that he'd read in the news that some New York mafiosi were going to get out of prison soon, after being incarcerated for upwards of twenty years... and that got me thinking. What would it be like to be back on the streets of Brooklyn, in the city you call home but have not seen since 1991? What would it be like to have your life, and the woman you love, ripped away from you? And could you ever forgive the people who put you behind bars for a quarter century?
As I started imagining the person, I also started thinking about his star crossed lover and his criminal life before he was arrested and charged with a bunch of crimes, including conspiracy to commit murder. There were, from the start, a lot of threads, love and loss, freedom and liberty, the meaning of forgiveness, the effects of a criminal life and an incarcerated life and, finally, the enduring power of love.
As I started imagining the person, I also started thinking about his star crossed lover and his criminal life before he was arrested and charged with a bunch of crimes, including conspiracy to commit murder. There were, from the start, a lot of threads, love and loss, freedom and liberty, the meaning of forgiveness, the effects of a criminal life and an incarcerated life and, finally, the enduring power of love.
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