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Freedom and Confinement Quotes in Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison

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Quote #10

When I stepped outside and inhaled my first breath of freedom in nineteen years, I felt like a baby taking in air for the first time. The air tickled my lungs, and I smiled from deep within. I was officially afree man, and this time, I would do freedom the right way.(26.2)

Shaka grows from seeing freedom as the chance to do whatever he wants to seeing freedom as the chance to contribute to his community.