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May 2004

The Fugitives

They just kept running until they came to the end of their long, painful rope

My wife and I stood before the federal judge and listened to her pronounce sentence on us. We were both going to do prison time. We'd been through a lot in the twenty years we'd been together. We'd drunk and drugged together, and now we were both going to prison on a drug-dealing charge. I like to say that we were "codependents and codefendants."

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