"So I make no effort to hide my pain. I donâ€™t ever put it all on display like thisâ€”but for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will be magnified a hundred times over, then dissected by the pundits and talking heads. But Iâ€™m told itâ€™s necessary; the world needs to see me vulnerable and wounded. I cannot appear not to care or to lack remorse, but that removes a crucial component of my self- defense mechanism and leaves me bleeding for all the world to see. I suppose thatâ€™s rather the point."

-- Ann Aguirre

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