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Southern Lawyers-Part Fifteen

Updated: June 18, 2023 Aubrey             After an hour of discharge instructions and scheduling follow-up appointments, not to mention the gathering of all the flowers

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Southern Lawyers-Part Ten

Updated: June 18, 2023 Aubrey             The rain was drumming hard on the roof and against the windows.  We ate leftovers for dinner, and I

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Southern Lawyers-Part Nine

Updated: June 18, 2023 Aubrey             Clay was telling me all morning to stop fidgeting. According to him I looked ‘more nervous than a long-tailed

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Southern Lawyers-Part Eight

Updated: June 18, 2023 Aubrey             The Beaufort County Sheriff’s office was a nondescript brick building. Pretty multicolored flowers were planted around the base of

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Southern Lawyers-Part Two

Updated: June 18, 2023 Aubrey “Clayton Hoover, Ooof.” I watched his entire trial, it was live streamed every day for weeks and the lead prosecutor

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Southern Lawyers

Updated: June 18, 2023 Clay             I saw her walk into the lobby bar.             My team and I had just finished a lengthy, seven-week

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Waking up a Widow

Posted–March 10, 2023 There is something about going back in time to read your raw and bleeding thoughts. It grounds me, it reminds me how

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Welcome

March 9, 2023 So, what do you think about this? I’ve got a website. It has been 1021 days since my world crashed with the

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Meet Dana

Dana Giovinetti-Devine by her own admission is a late bloomer. The oldest of her parents three children, she was always acting “in charge” of her

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