Melinda and Melinda
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Well, they must have felt the circumstances
were extenuating if you got off so lightly.

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It may seem lightly to you,
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but it was nothing but hell.
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And if you've never been arrested and put
on trial, well, that alone is sentence enough.

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The horror, the...
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the tension, the police, the journalists...
I went over my story hundreds of times -

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the jilted mother, seduced away
from her family, sick on drugs,

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the struggle for the gun, the gun goes off.
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But there was no struggle.
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That was legal fiction.
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Well, you had good lawyers.
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Not like your child custody team.
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I remember just lying
in my cell at night and thinking,

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"My God. "
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"You are Melinda Nash from Park Avenue. "
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"What the hell are you doing
in a women's prison in Illinois?"

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So, naturally, after I got out
I decided to end it all.

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What do you want?
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I want to want to live.
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Everybody wants to live.
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Now that I met you,
I'm feeling a little more positive about it.

:57:52
Congratulate me. I just got canned.
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My version differs from theirs. They would
have you believe I couldn't hold my liquor,


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