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CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE: THE RELEASE
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One year after Hale's sentencing.I did not plan to mark it. The date arrived and I noticed it and then the day moved around me the way days moved and I let it.But Colt had noticed the date too.He came to find me at noon. I was in the framework companion document. Final revision. The version that was going to the DOJ the following week for permanent program integration.He put his hand on my shoulder briefly."Come outside," he said.We went to the east wall.Hammer's bench.We sat down.The compound in the noon light. The string lights from the wedding still there. Cruz had added small solar lights along the base of the east wall at some point in the last few months. They came on automatically at dusk. The whole corner had become something between a memorial and a gathering place. People went there. Not always for Hammer specifically. But the space had become the space where the compound's collective history lived."A year," Colt said.
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