For 18 long, grueling years, a man sat behind the cold bars of a prison cell for a crime he did not commit. Each denied appeal slowly chipped away at his hope, each passing year a harsh reminder that the system meant to protect justice had failed him. To the outside world, he was nothing more than a case number, another statistic lost in a bureaucratic machine. But to one person, he was everything—the center of her world, the spark of her unyielding determination.
