This is exactly right.

This is Justin from Generation Y and we're doing a four-part series unraveling the story

of Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held at Rikers Island

for three years without trial.

This story is about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system, listen to

Generation Y on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

In 2005, my life changed forever.

My mom had just been diagnosed with hepatitis C and advised me to get tested.

When my doctor told me I also had it, the room went dark.

All my thoughts stopped and I didn't hear anything else being said.

I worried that I'd given my kids a deadly disease.

The next day, I scheduled my family to be tested.

Everyone's results were negative, but this didn't end my personal nightmare with a disease.

I was witnessing hepatitis C ravaged through my mom's body.

A liver transplant would only buy her time.

She ultimately chose not to undergo a dual organ transplant and passed away on May 6, 2006.

My liver began to deteriorate quickly.

I went from stage one to stage four in less than five years, which terrified me.

I saw no hope.

After years of unsuccessful treatments and being unqualified for clinical trials, I was finally

accepted for a clinical trial in early 2013 and began the treatment later that year.

My viral load started at 17 million.

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