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.

I was born in a body very different to my brother and sister.

The only difference was that with me, my mom took one tablet in the early stages of pregnancy

and that one tablet sealed my fate in life.

Can you just imagine the delivery room?

Instead of the usual, congratulations, you have a beautiful bouncing baby girl.

There would have been absolute hushed silence and gasps of horror as I was born.

I was whisked away into a corner of the room and mom never saw me for three days because

the doctors decided that I was too grossly deformed for her to love me.

These doctors didn't know my mom, who is the most wonderful woman in the world and knowing

what she went through with me breaks my heart.

She lives with so much guilt for taking that one tablet.

How did the drug affect me?

For starters, I have no arms.

I have three little fingers attached to a little hand that basically comes out of the

side of my shoulders.

There was also heaps of internal damage done to my heart and lungs which has resulted

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