Jennifer Thompson's Picking Cotton

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The memoir, Picking Cotton; Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, by Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton, tells a real-life story, that is broken into two perspectives. In one perspective, a young lady, Jennifer Thompson, is sexaul assault by a man she thought was Ronald Cotton. The other point of view is a man, Ronald Cotton, which is convicted for a crime he did not commit that causes him to be in prison for more than ten years. Ronald and Jennifer made separate life decisions which influenced benefited their circumstances. However, these decisions are both helpful and libel for themselves.
While Jennifer was being raped, she did not try to fight back, but instead she was trying to focus on her rapist’s features and what he looked like.

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