Patricia Bellows felt powerless when she heard that her younger brother had been shot and suffered a head wound. He was in the hospital, and for a while he was in a coma. But then one day she was able to talk to him, on a video call from prison. At first he wasn’t able to talk back. And during that time, she spent days alone in her cell, wondering what to do.
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