How Come the Stupid Things We Do When We’re Young Manage to Get Us in Trouble?

At age nineteen, I spent the night in jail for daring to ignore a subpoena.

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I had an old boyfriend once, whose actions ultimately led to me spending a night in jail.

The story is one that I still recall vividly, although it happened so long ago.

I can recall all too well in my mind, the events, including:

What the incident was about

Who the boyfriend was

What happened on the night in question

What he was accused of

How I landed in jail

What happened afterwards

The following paragraph discusses what occurred when…

The cops show up at the door

When the detectives showed up to the new two bedroom house my sister and I had started renting, I don’t remember how much time had passed since the trial. It had been a while.

Long enough for me to have forgotten all about Charles and his crazy siblings. Since I wasn’t in the loop anymore, I didn’t know for sure that a second trial had actually been planned.