She couldn't believe it had already been four years since he left. All that time missed. Birthdays, Christmas, Halloween. They just kept coming, and they just couldn't be together for any of them.
It was a crime he didn't even commit. Eight years ago his grandmother had a bad episode of dementia. She called the police and said he pushed her down. He had not.
He panicked and left, and, when the police got there, they rushed her to the hospital where they found cracks in her hip from a degenerative bone disease.
Being the state of Texas they immediately blamed him saying it was his fault, and the state picked up the charges.
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