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witness stand and said that Denise was the best mother she’d ever seen and that she hoped to be just like her when we have our own children.
    I t hink I’ll call that magazine up, the one Sarah is negotiating with, and ask them if they’d like to pay for the vasectomy of one Seeley Brown. It would be great. They can even film the procedure and do a full color layout, because as far as I’m concerned, these days Deeley was the luckiest member of our entire family.
    Despite Sarah’s moving story about Denise’s motherhood, Denise still hasn’t contacted any of us, not to say ‘Thank you’, or ‘Fuck you’, or ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry for what I’ve done to you, for what I did to Deeley’, and I don’t think she ever will.
    I find , too, that I don’t give much of a shit about that anymore. I don’t think I ever knew my sister anyway, and now she doesn’t even look like herself anymore. She’s gained a ton of weight while she’s been in jail. The way she looks now reminds me of how she looked when she was pregnant.
    You know , they had me up on the stand five times during Denise’s trial and they never really asked me a question worth answering. Both the prosecution and the defense asked me if I was Deeley’s, father despite a negative paternity test.
    I answered no.
    They both asked me if I believed my mother about the computer searches.
    I said no.
    They asked if I thought my father was complicit in Deeley’s death and cover-up.
    I said no.
    What neither side asked, so I’ve never had to wonder what I would have said, is whether or not I thought my sister deliberately killed my niece. They didn’t ask me that, so I didn’t have to answer them. And they didn’t ask me if I knew who Deeley’s real father was, so I didn’t have to betray my promise to her to always keep her secrets.
    Well , it’s all over now but for the inevitable guilty verdict, and so what does it matter anymore?
    It doesn’t matter to me , not now. I will say this, though. My sister is not a complete liar and I’m not completely honest, so I wonder if anyone, her included, should ever receive a guilty verdict. We’re all guilty here.

Charlotte Hope
    (Eye on America)

    Good evening America, this is ‘Eye on America’ and I’m Charlotte Hope.
    I want to thank you for being with us tonight as I share breaking news out of Orlando, Florida. The long awaited verdict in the trial of Fibber McMom, Denise Brown , has arrived and, Americans, it is my duty to tell you the shocking news that she has been found not guilty .
    That’s right , America, Denise Brown, whose tiny daughter, Baby Deeley, whose remains were found in a garbage bag not fifteen houses down from the Brown home, with her tiny jaw still bearing the traces of duct tape, and whose mother then partied away from one hot body contest to booty-shaking event for thirty-one days, and then only after being confronted by her mother, Baby Deeley’s grandmother, admitted that, ‘Oh, I don’t know where my baby is …’, was found not guilty, found not guilty , despite changing her story from her baby being kidnapped to her baby having drowned … and despite all this, twelve jurors have found Denise Brown to be innocent.
    This is our American jurisprudence system and , America, it is a system that I hold dear and will uphold with my dying breath, as a former prosecutor. But I cannot help but think, America, that tonight the devil is dancing.
    Let’s go to our field reporter, Bambi Isles, for an update.

    Bambi Isles, KORL 15 News:
    Good evening , Charlotte, and thank you for having me on. As you said, this has been a shocking turn of events from both inside the courtroom as well as outside the courtroom tonight.

    Charlotte:
    Bambi, what do you mean outside ?

    Bambi Isles, KORL 15 News:
    Well , Charlotte, we received some footage from a field reporter over at KRON news that the tree that Baby Deeley was found under was struck by lighting and destroyed. It seems almost ominous, doesn’t it?

    Charlotte:
    Yes , Bambi, it does. I assume you are referring to a tree near the side of the road where Baby Deeley was left like garbage, are you not?

    Bambi Isles, KORL 15 News:
    Yes , I am, Charlotte.

    Charlotte:
    Tragic , but as I have already said, the devil is dancing. Bambi, did you get a chance to speak to the, I assume, so triumphant Mr. Salvatore Guittirez and any of his defense team following this verdict?

    Bambi Isles, KORL 15 News:
    No , Charlotte, I