The prisons are full enough, and it would cost us even more money to keep her incarcerated. I think they shcould've given her a longer probationary period and stipulated a psych evaluation, but the restitution is enough to sting while not burying her in debt.

__________________
Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.