‘The Big House And The Picket Fence’ • Discoverology

‘The Big House And The Picket Fence’

Tonya Crowder still dreams that she and her fiance, Roosevelt Myles—who’s been in prison for decades fighting what he says is a wrongful conviction—will one day build a life together somewhere “nice, quiet, and simple.”

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