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Claiming she was nervous would be an understatement. How had she, Alice Taylor, found herself in jail at almost twenty-two years old, already divorced and separated from her son? If someone had told her two years ago, after marrying Robert Graham, that her life would take such a drastic turn, she might have defied her father for the first time, either by escaping or firmly refusing to marry Robert. But she had obeyed, and everything that followed is now history.

Wearing the standard-issue gray prison uniform, Alice was shown around the large jail, housing about seven hundred inmates. She arrived with certain privileges, including being kept away from the general population in an isolated cell. In some ways, this was a relief. She didn't see herself as a criminal like the others and was terrified at the thought of living with women who had committed heinous crimes or sharing a room with strangers.

This was the lowest point any Taylor had ever reached, and Alice continued to set unfortu