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- 0:03Speaker 1: On July eleventh, two thoy nineteen, a utility meter reader
- 0:08Speaker 1: named Glenn Tucker opened a basement storage room he had
- 0:11Speaker 1: accessed dozens of times before. What he found there had
- 0:15Speaker 1: nothing to do with meters or pipes. Seven cardboard filing boxes,
- 0:21Speaker 1: neatly labeled by year, were stacked against the wall. Every
- 0:25Speaker 1: document inside them named the same person, Cynthia Wells apartment
- 0:31Speaker 1: to see. Tucker photographed the boxes and called his supervisor.
- 0:36Speaker 1: By the following morning, an Olmsted police detective was standing
- 0:39Speaker 1: in that basement, and the question that would consume the
- 0:42Speaker 1: next several months of investigation was not who had stored
- 0:46Speaker 1: those boxes. The question was what exactly they had been
- 0:50Speaker 1: built to do. This is not a story about violence.
- 0:53Speaker 1: It is a story about precision, about how one man
- 0:56Speaker 1: spent nearly a decade constructing a paper reality designed to
- 1:01Speaker 1: make a woman doubt her own The case that followed
- 1:03Speaker 1: would hinge on a digital access log, six spiral notebooks,
- 1:07Speaker 1: and a cat named Oscar Haverfield Arms sits on Greston
- 1:12Speaker 1: Place in Olmsted, Ohio. The building went up in nineteen
- 1:16Speaker 1: sixty one, four stories of brick central stairwell units that
- 1:21Speaker 1: run about twelve hundred square feet. By two thousand and nine,
- 1:25Speaker 1: it was a solid, if unremarkable address, affordable stable, the
- 1:32Speaker 1: kind of building where people stayed. Cynthia Wells moved into
- 1:36Speaker 1: Apartment two Sea that fall. She was twenty eight years old.
- 1:40Speaker 1: In two thousand nine, she worked as a billing coordinator,
- 1:43Speaker 1: a job that required exactness, matching invoices, reconciling accounts, catching
- 1:50Speaker 1: discrepancies before they compounded. Her neighboring two be a woman
- 1:54Speaker 1: named Patrice Holt, later described her as quiet and precise.
- 1:59Speaker 1: Those two were would come back repeatedly during the investigation.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Cynthia was separated. At the time of her moving, she
- 2:07Speaker 1: was building something new carefully. Her rent was six hundred
- 2:11Speaker 1: forty dollars a month, well below market for comparable units
- 2:15Speaker 1: in Olmsted, which by the end of the decade would
- 2:18Speaker 1: run closer to fourteen hundred. She stayed because it worked,
- 2:22Speaker 1: because it was hers. Ronald Mitchell had owned Haverfield Arms
- 2:28Speaker 1: since two thousand four. He managed three small buildings in
- 2:31Speaker 1: the area. No prior criminal record. People who dealt with
- 2:35Speaker 1: him professionally described him as methodical, patient and reasonable. He
- 2:41Speaker 1: was fifty three years old in two thousand ninety he
- 2:44Speaker 1: presented in every visible way as the kind of landlord.
- 2:48Speaker 1: Tenants were grateful to have The trouble, according to the
- 2:52Speaker 1: evidence later compiled, started in the spring of two thousand ten.
- 2:56Speaker 1: That was when the first formal notice arrived at a
- 3:00Speaker 1: apartment to s a noise disturbance complaint. Cynthia had no
- 3:04Speaker 1: recollection of causing one. She filed it away. These things
- 3:09Speaker 1: happened in apartment buildings. She was not alarmed. She should
- 3:13Speaker 1: have paid closer attention to the pattern. Over the next
- 3:17Speaker 1: six years, notices continued to arrive, a faucet misuse violation,
- 3:22Speaker 1: a claim of an unauthorized occupant, a complaint about windows
- 3:26Speaker 1: screen damage. Each letter was formally worded, each carried the
- 3:31Speaker 1: weight of official documentation, and for several years, Cynthia absorbed
- 3:36Speaker 1: them the way most tenants absorbed low level bureaucratic friction,
- 3:39Speaker 1: with mild frustration and no particular alarm. Then in twenty thirteen,
- 3:45Speaker 1: a notice arrived alleging she was operating a home based
- 3:48Speaker 1: business out of apartment to see it cited a city filing.
- 3:53Speaker 1: A housing authority investigator named Iris Tatum was assigned to
- 3:58Speaker 1: look into it. Tatum found no home based business. She
- 4:02Speaker 1: also found that the city filing number on the notice
- 4:05Speaker 1: did not correspond to any real filing by Cynthia. It
- 4:09Speaker 1: had been transposed from a legitimate public document onto a
- 4:12Speaker 1: complaint that bore no factual basis. That detail would not
- 4:16Speaker 1: become significant until years later. By twenty fifteen, the accumulating
- 4:22Speaker 1: pressure could worn something down in Cynthia. She began seeing
- 4:25Speaker 1: a therapist named doctor Frank Ossa. She told him about
- 4:29Speaker 1: the notices. She also told him that small things in
- 4:32Speaker 1: her apartment seemed to shift a chair at a different angle,
- 4:36Speaker 1: an item not where she had left it. Doctor Osai
- 4:40Speaker 1: noted her reports carefully. He also noted in his records
- 4:44Speaker 1: that stress could affect perception. He did not dismiss her,
- 4:47Speaker 1: but he did not have an explanation. In twenty sixteen,
- 4:51Speaker 1: her cat Oscar was diagnosed with a chronic condition requiring
- 4:54Speaker 1: daily subcutaneous saline injections. Cynthia's veterinarian, doctor Nea Oconquo, taught
- 5:01Speaker 1: her the procedure. Every morning at seven fifteen. Cynthia administered
- 5:06Speaker 1: the treatment before leaving for work at approximately eight thirty.
- 5:09Speaker 1: That routine, established out of medical necessity, would become one
- 5:14Speaker 1: of the most important evidentiary anchors. In the entire case,
- 5:18Speaker 1: she kept a treatment log, then another. By the time
- 5:22Speaker 1: the investigation began, she had filled six spiral notebooks covering
- 5:26Speaker 1: six years of treatment entries. Cynthia Wells was not a
- 5:30Speaker 1: difficult tenant. She was not behind on rent. She was
- 5:34Speaker 1: not a source of documented complaints from other residents. She was,
- 5:38Speaker 1: by every available account, exactly who she appeared to be,
- 5:42Speaker 1: a quiet, precise woman living alone with her cat, doing
- 5:46Speaker 1: her job, keeping her records. What she could not yet
- 5:49Speaker 1: see was that someone else was keeping records too. The
- 5:53Speaker 1: first anomaly was a number, not a large one, not
- 5:57Speaker 1: dramatic in the way numbers in court cases sometimes uns on,
- 6:01Speaker 1: just a city filing number printed on an official looking
- 6:04Speaker 1: notice that did not correspond to any real city filing
- 6:08Speaker 1: by Cynthia Wells. She had no way to know that
- 6:11Speaker 1: at the time Iris Tatum knew it. The housing Authority
- 6:14Speaker 1: investigator had been assigned to look into the home business
- 6:17Speaker 1: complaint in twenty thirteen. She went through the proper channels.
- 6:21Speaker 1: She checked the filing number printed on Mitchell's notice against
- 6:25Speaker 1: actual municipal records. The number existed, It belonged to a
- 6:29Speaker 1: real public document, but that document had nothing to do
- 6:33Speaker 1: with Cynthia Wells a pardon in two C Haverfield Arms.
- 6:38Speaker 1: Someone had taken a legitimate filing number and placed it
- 6:42Speaker 1: onto a fabricated complaint Tatum, who closed the case no
- 6:47Speaker 1: home based business fact. The notice went into a file
- 6:51Speaker 1: someone life continued. What no one connected not yet was
- 6:55Speaker 1: that this was the third year of formally documented pressure
- 6:59Speaker 1: on a single tenant. A noised disturbance notice in twenty ten,
- 7:04Speaker 1: a faucet misuse citation, an unauthorized occupant warning, and now
- 7:10Speaker 1: a fabricated business complaint carrying a borrowed city number to
- 7:13Speaker 1: make it look real. Each notice, taken a loan, was
- 7:17Speaker 1: the kind of paperwork any landlord might generate. Together, they
- 7:22Speaker 1: were something else, But in two thousand thirteen, nobody was
- 7:26Speaker 1: looking at them together. Between two thousand fifteen and two
- 7:30Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, the Veritech keypad system at Haverfield Arms logged
- 7:35Speaker 1: forty one after hours entries to Apartment two S from
- 7:38Speaker 1: a single account, Ronald Mitchell's account. None of those entries
- 7:42Speaker 1: had a corresponding work order. Walter Gibbs, the part time
- 7:46Speaker 1: superintendent who had standard VERITEC access, testified that Mitchell never
- 7:51Speaker 1: told him about any of these visits. Forty one entries,
- 7:55Speaker 1: no work orders, no disclosure to staff. The pattern held
- 8:00Speaker 1: one more detail that made it harder to dismiss as coincidence.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Twenty seven of those forty one entries clustered inside a
- 8:07Speaker 1: specific daily window after eight thirty in the morning. Cynthia
- 8:11Speaker 1: left for work at approximately eight thirty. She administered Oscar's
- 8:15Speaker 1: treatment at seven point fifteen and then departed. The Vertex
- 8:20Speaker 1: system had, without knowing it, recorded the shape of a routine.
- 8:24Speaker 1: Pete Sorrento installed the Veritech system in twenty eleven. He
- 8:28Speaker 1: testified to two things. First, he had left an installation
- 8:33Speaker 1: phase override credential with Mitchell during SETI. Second, Mitchell had
- 8:38Speaker 1: specifically asked him whether the master credential covered access to
- 8:43Speaker 1: the basement utility room. The basement utility room had physical locks,
- 8:48Speaker 1: it had no Veritech door entry logging routine access was
- 8:52Speaker 1: restricted to utility workers. Sorrento answered the question the credential
- 8:57Speaker 1: did cover that room. At the time deemed like a
- 9:00Speaker 1: reasonable question from a thorough building room. Now consider what
- 9:04Speaker 1: was in that basement utility room in July of two thousand,
- 9:07Speaker 1: nineteen seven. Filing boxes labeled by a year twenty ten
- 9:12Speaker 1: through twenty sixteen, inside lease violation notices, maintenance work orders,
- 9:18Speaker 1: housing authority correspondence. Every document bore the name Cynthia Wells
- 9:23Speaker 1: and the unit designation Apartment two S. Glen Tucker found
- 9:28Speaker 1: them on July eleventh, two thousand nineteen. Tucker was a
- 9:32Speaker 1: meter reader with an eleven year route. He had been
- 9:34Speaker 1: in that basement many times. The boxes were not hidden.
- 9:38Speaker 1: They sat in a corner of the room, stacked and labeled.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Tucker photographed them. He was not certain what he was
- 9:44Speaker 1: looking at. He reported what he had found. Detective Kevin
- 9:48Speaker 1: Marsh arrived the following morning. Marsh subpoenaed the vera Tech
- 9:52Speaker 1: serverlogs in July of two thousand nineteen. What came back
- 9:56Speaker 1: was not a list of maintenance visits. It was a
- 9:59Speaker 1: record of access that had no operational explanation. Forty one
- 10:04Speaker 1: entries after hours, no work orders matched to any of them.
- 10:09Speaker 1: A cluster aligned with one woman's morning departure from her
- 10:13Speaker 1: own apartment, but the logs pointed somewhere else too. Mitchell's
- 10:17Speaker 1: Veritec account was connected to a cloud storage holder. When
- 10:21Speaker 1: investigators accessed that folder, they found photographs not maintenance photographs,
- 10:26Speaker 1: not building condition documentation, photographs of Cynthia's bank statements, a
- 10:32Speaker 1: letter from her physician, a draft housing complaint written in
- 10:36Speaker 1: a format that mirrored the notices already in the filing boxes.
- 10:41Speaker 1: This is the detail that reframes everything before it, Every
- 10:44Speaker 1: small shifted object Cynthia had mentioned to doctor Osa, the
- 10:48Speaker 1: chair at a different angle, the item not where she
- 10:51Speaker 1: left it had an explanation that was not stress. Someone
- 10:54Speaker 1: had been inside her apartment. Someone had found her financial records,
- 10:58Speaker 1: her medical correspondents and had photographed on them. The draft
- 11:03Speaker 1: housing complaint in that folder suggested those documents were not
- 11:06Speaker 1: there by accident. They were being used to build something.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Lauren Lewis, a clinical social worker specializing in coercive control,
- 11:15Speaker 1: was brought in as a prosecution consultant in August of
- 11:18Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. She worked with Cynthia. She also reviewed the
- 11:22Speaker 1: full document record. Her assessment organized the campaign into four movements. First,
- 11:28Speaker 1: a legitimacy campaign, authoritative looking documentation generated over years to
- 11:33Speaker 1: create paper record of a problematic tendency which did not
- 11:37Speaker 1: actually exist. Second, gaslighting, fabricated records designed to make Cynthia
- 11:42Speaker 1: doubt what she knew to be true about her own life. Third,
- 11:47Speaker 1: unauthorized entries intelligence gathering inside the apartment, combined with the
- 11:52Speaker 1: psychological effect on a person who notices things moving but
- 11:56Speaker 1: cannot explain why. Forth, the filing boxes dedructed counter narrative,
- 12:01Speaker 1: stored in a room with no entry logging available. If
- 12:05Speaker 1: Mitchell ever needed to demonstrate that Cynthia had been a
- 12:08Speaker 1: documented problem all along, Cynthia's rent in twenty nineteen was
- 12:13Speaker 1: seven hundred ninety dollars. Comparable units in that area were
- 12:18Speaker 1: renting for fourteen hundred dollars a month. She had a
- 12:22Speaker 1: below market lease she had held since two thousand nine.
- 12:26Speaker 1: That fact does not appear in any official document from
- 12:28Speaker 1: the investigation, but it sits beside every other fact, like
- 12:33Speaker 1: a frame around a picture. Ronald Mitchell, in his September
- 12:37Speaker 1: twenty nineteen profer, offered an explanation. He described himself as
- 12:42Speaker 1: a reasonable landlord maintaining thorough records for a difficult tenancy.
- 12:47Speaker 1: He said the credential access had been a matter of confusion.
- 12:51Speaker 1: He denied any intent to intimidate picture the basement utility
- 12:56Speaker 1: room on the morning Tucker found those boxes labeled by year.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Seven years of documentation bearing one tenant's name, stored in
- 13:07Speaker 1: the one room in the building with no digital entry.
- 13:11Speaker 1: If someone needed to explain why so much paperwork existed,
- 13:15Speaker 1: those boxes were the answer. If someone needed to retrieve
- 13:18Speaker 1: or add to them without creating a record, the unlogged
- 13:21Speaker 1: room was the method. The reasonable landlord account requires that
- 13:26Speaker 1: the veritec entries were administrative oversights. It requires that forty
- 13:31Speaker 1: one after hours visits left no work orders because of
- 13:35Speaker 1: filing lapses. It requires that the cloud fold or containing
- 13:38Speaker 1: Cynthia's bank statements and physician letter was assembled for some
- 13:42Speaker 1: legitimate purpose that Mitchell chose not to describe. It requires
- 13:46Speaker 1: that the installation phased credential question, specifically whether access extended
- 13:52Speaker 1: to the unlogged basement order was idle curiosity. Each of
- 13:56Speaker 1: those things, as individually possible. Together, the produced something the
- 14:01Speaker 1: evidence does not support, But the investigation had already found
- 14:05Speaker 1: something that moved past Mitchell's account before he made it.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Amy Cho, a prosecution paralegal, located two former tenants at
- 14:14Speaker 1: properties Mitchell had managed before Haverfield Arms. Lisa Ferris had
- 14:19Speaker 1: rented in Granville from two thousand one to two thousand three.
- 14:23Speaker 1: George Wen had rented in Dayton in two thousand six.
- 14:26Speaker 1: Both reported similar patterns unauthorized entry complaints, official looking notices,
- 14:32Speaker 1: housing authority correspondents that did not hold up on close examination.
- 14:37Speaker 1: Neither case had produced charges at the time. Both had
- 14:40Speaker 1: produced one outcome. The tenant left Cynthia Wells in two
- 14:44Speaker 1: thousand nineteen still lived in Apartment two C. She had
- 14:48Speaker 1: not left. Her rent was still seven ninety dollars. That,
- 14:53Speaker 1: according to testimony in the case record, is the variable
- 14:56Speaker 1: that made this time different from the others, not method.
- 15:00Speaker 1: The method, the evidence suggested, was familiar. What was different
- 15:05Speaker 1: was that Cynthia kept a cat who needed daily treatment
- 15:08Speaker 1: at seven fifteen in the morning, and she kept a
- 15:10Speaker 1: log of every session in spiral notebooks, and those note
- 15:14Speaker 1: books placed her inside her apartment at a precise time
- 15:18Speaker 1: every single day for three years, and one morning, a
- 15:22Speaker 1: meter reader with an eleven year route happened to look
- 15:25Speaker 1: at a corner of the basement that had always been there.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Ronald Mitchell was arrested on August twenty second, twenty nineteen.
- 15:34Speaker 1: The charges were unlawful entry, computer fraud under the Federal
- 15:38Speaker 1: Stored Communications Statute and harassment under Ohio's Criminal Menacing Law.
- 15:45Speaker 1: He was fifty three years old. He had no prior
- 15:48Speaker 1: criminal record. He had described himself in his own proffer
- 15:52Speaker 1: to prosecutors as a reasonable man. The trial lasted four
- 15:57Speaker 1: days in February of twenty twenty. The jury deliberated for
- 16:01Speaker 1: six hours. They convicted on all counts, six hours for
- 16:06Speaker 1: a campaign that had run from two thousand ten through
- 16:08Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. The sentencing record shows thirty one months Mitchell
- 16:14Speaker 1: served twenty two. The court also entered a consent agreement
- 16:18Speaker 1: with the Olmsted Housing Authority requiring the sale at Hawerfield Arms.
- 16:23Speaker 1: Under the terms of that agreement, Cynthia Wells was offered
- 16:26Speaker 1: the right of first refusal on a renewed lease under
- 16:29Speaker 1: the new ownership. She declined. There is nothing in the
- 16:32Speaker 1: record that explains that decision in her own words, but
- 16:35Speaker 1: the record does show what she chose instead, a ground
- 16:38Speaker 1: floor unit in a smaller building four blocks away, a
- 16:42Speaker 1: place where no one had ever photographed her bank statements,
- 16:45Speaker 1: a place where the entry system had no master credential
- 16:48Speaker 1: tied to anyone's name but her own. She and Oscar
- 16:52Speaker 1: moved together. What the verdict could not undo was the
- 16:55Speaker 1: decade it had taken to arrive. From twenty ten to
- 16:59Speaker 1: two thousand ninetheen Cynthia had filed complaints that produced no action.
- 17:04Speaker 1: She had told a therapist that objects in her apartment
- 17:06Speaker 1: were being moved, and the therapist had gently suggested that
- 17:10Speaker 1: stress might affect perception. She had received official looking letters
- 17:14Speaker 1: from her own landlord, written in the language of municipal authority,
- 17:18Speaker 1: using real document numbers transposed on too fabricated violations. She
- 17:23Speaker 1: had been told repeatedly and through legitimate looking channels, that
- 17:28Speaker 1: the problem was her. Lauren Lewis, the coercive control specialist
- 17:32Speaker 1: who consulted for the prosecution, described the campaign in four
- 17:36Speaker 1: phases during her testimony. First, the legitimacy campaign, a year's
- 17:41Speaker 1: long accumulation of authoritative documentation designed to make Mitchell appear
- 17:46Speaker 1: the aggrieved party. Second, systematic gaslighting, fabricated records constructed to
- 17:53Speaker 1: undermine Cynthia's confidence in her own observations. Third, the unauthorized
- 17:59Speaker 1: entries not just intelligence gathering, but a method of destabilization
- 18:03Speaker 1: that worked precisely because it could never be proven from
- 18:07Speaker 1: inside the apartment. Fourth, the filing boxes themselves, a physical
- 18:11Speaker 1: counter narrative stored where Mitchell alone knew to find it
- 18:16Speaker 1: ready to be produced if the campaign ever required formal justification.
- 18:20Speaker 1: The boxes were never needed for their purpose. They became
- 18:24Speaker 1: instead the evidence that ended him. That inversion, the archive
- 18:29Speaker 1: built to protect Mitchell becoming the archive that convicted him
- 18:33Speaker 1: is what the case record returns to repeatedly. He documented everything,
- 18:38Speaker 1: so did Cynthia. The difference for nine years was that
- 18:42Speaker 1: his documents were believed and hers were not. What changed
- 18:46Speaker 1: was not the quality of her account. What changed was
- 18:50Speaker 1: a meter reader who glanced at a corner of a
- 18:52Speaker 1: basement utility room on a July morning and thought the
- 18:56Speaker 1: filing boxes looked out of place. Glen Tucker tested trial.
- 19:01Speaker 1: He explained his eleven year route, the routine nature of
- 19:04Speaker 1: the visit, the moment he saw the boxes. He identified
- 19:08Speaker 1: his photographs as the ones he had taken that day.
- 19:11Speaker 1: He was a utility worker doing a scheduled read. That
- 19:15Speaker 1: was all. The case record shows that Tucker and Cynthia
- 19:18Speaker 1: Wells have never met. They have never spoken, but Tucker
- 19:22Speaker 1: keeps a copy of the local newspaper article about the
- 19:25Speaker 1: conviction in his work truck. He has not said publicly why.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Oscar was seventeen years old when the trial ended In
- 19:34Speaker 1: February of twenty twenty, he was still receiving his saline
- 19:38Speaker 1: treatment at seven fifteen every morning. Cynthia still kept the log.
- 19:43Speaker 1: By the end of the trial, it filled six spiral notebooks,
- 19:47Speaker 1: covering six years of entries. Those notebooks had begun as
- 19:51Speaker 1: a medical record for a cat with a chronic diagnosis.
- 19:54Speaker 1: They became without anyone intending it. The most precise corroboration
- 19:59Speaker 1: in the case a daily time stamp in Cynthia's handwriting
- 20:03Speaker 1: that placed her inside apartment to sea at the exact
- 20:06Speaker 1: hour Mitchell's system was logging him out. She had not
- 20:10Speaker 1: kept the note books to protect herself. She had kept
- 20:14Speaker 1: them because Oscar needed her there. That is the detail
- 20:17Speaker 1: that resists easy framing. Not the conviction, not the sentence,
- 20:22Speaker 1: not the sale of Haverfield arms. The detail that stays
- 20:26Speaker 1: is this, the mechanism that ultimately protected Cynthia. Was not
- 20:30Speaker 1: a complaint she filed, not a lawyer she retained, not
- 20:33Speaker 1: a system that recognized what was happening to her. It
- 20:37Speaker 1: was a routine she built around the needs of an
- 20:39Speaker 1: animal who could not speak for what he required. The
- 20:42Speaker 1: case raised questions that the verdict alone does not answer
- 20:47Speaker 1: the Spheris left her rental in Granville in two thousand three.
- 20:51Speaker 1: George Wenn left his in Date in two thousand six.
- 20:55Speaker 1: Neither departure produced charges. The pattern those tenancies represent methodical
- 21:01Speaker 1: document official in appearance did not become visible until prosecution
- 21:06Speaker 1: Parallelllgal went looking, sixteen years after it began. The record
- 21:11Speaker 1: does not say whether there were others between Ferris and When,
- 21:15Speaker 1: or between When and Haverfield Arms. It does not say
- 21:19Speaker 1: whether there were others inside Haverfield Arms who are not
- 21:23Speaker 1: named in the case file. What it says is that
- 21:25Speaker 1: the method, when it worked, left no complainant in place
- 21:29Speaker 1: to be interviewed. Cynthia Wells stayed. That is the single
- 21:34Speaker 1: fact that made this case possible. Not because staying was
- 21:38Speaker 1: safe or because the system rewarded her for it. She
- 21:41Speaker 1: stayed because the rent was seven hundred ninety dollars a
- 21:45Speaker 1: month in a market where comparable units ran fourteen hundred,
- 21:49Speaker 1: and she had a cat who needed her home at
- 21:51Speaker 1: seven fifteen, and she had nowhere else she could afford
- 21:55Speaker 1: to go. The outcome arrived in the form it did
- 21:59Speaker 1: because of a meter reader, a digital access log, and
- 22:03Speaker 1: six notebooks kept for a tabby cat with a kidney condition.
- 22:07Speaker 1: What Cynthia Wells understood and what the nine years before
- 22:11Speaker 1: the conviction demonstrate, is that a person's reality can be
- 22:15Speaker 1: dismantled without a single raised voice, without a threat anyone
- 22:20Speaker 1: can point to, without a moment that looks from the
- 22:23Speaker 1: outside like anything other than a landlord keeping thorough records.
- 22:28Speaker 1: The machinery of it is patience, The camouflage is paperwork,
- 22:33Speaker 1: and the damage accumulates in the gap between what a
- 22:36Speaker 1: person knows to be true and what anyone around them
- 22:39Speaker 1: is prepared to believe. She lives four blocks away now
- 22:43Speaker 1: ground floor. Her name is on the lease. This show
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