PBS American Portrait

My dad and I were really close. When I was young, we would, like, both play basketball together, and, like, he always supported me on sports and stuff. But when I was 15, my dad was arrested, and he was later convicted, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Last time I got to, like, hug him was, like, in 2015 when I want to High Desert, which is one of the prisons in Nevada where he was after he was sentenced to life. A lot of my life has really been focused on getting him out of prison. He was acquitted this year and exonerated... for a crime he didn't commit and released. And I was supposed to go see him, but then COVID happened. A lot of our correspondence over the last, like, ten years has been, like, letters. When I read these letters, it's, like-- it reminds me of how...

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How much time passed... how much of my life was lived without him. Amelia--she's really a motivated, young, intelligent woman. I have missed... eight and half years of their... Of their lives.

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It... it wasn't easy. So family... Family is great strength. I don't want him to feel like he's missed it. I really want him to feel like he's always been there. Now I get to go hang out with him. Maybe, like, eat food.

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I know that sounds really, like, simple, but I've been dying to, like, hang out with him... and to have a meal and... just talk. I wonder if that gap of time will be felt between us. I hope not.