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- Hearing Lakeland’s Fireworks Not The Same As Seeing Them, By George
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- Portable High Definition Televisions
- Andy Martin—Remember Him?—Gets His Moment In The Sun
- There’s One Behind Every Tree …
6:21 p.m.
“This is justice for Jessie,” Mark Lunsford says.
He said he felt relief, but still a bit of anger, when a clerk read the jury’s recommendation supporting death for his daughter’s killer.
His eyes are a bit red, his hair tossling in the wind. He fidgets with a pair of sunglasses in his hand—bends them to nearly the point of breaking. He wrinkles his toes in his black shoes.
Someone asks whether he has experienced closure now. He didn’t know how to answer the question two weeks ago.
He doesn’t have an answer now.
He makes it clear he isn’t done talking about Jessie. He isn’t done trying to protect other children from sex offenders.
“It doesn’t stop here,” he says, sniffling, still bending his glasses—nearly to the point of breaking.
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