When you visit someone who is behind bars, especially someone you think was sentenced unfairly, someone for whom you have great admiration, you want to make the visit worth that person’s time. Nadya’s biggest deficits in prison are conversation (she thrilled at one point during our visit at the opportunity to use the word “verbalize” — and, more generally, to be understood) and news from the outside world. So I wanted to share some good news with her — but I could not think of any.
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