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I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.
Alexander Gordon Smith
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Alexander Gordon Smith
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: February 27
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Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.
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I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedom—one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.
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