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Malcolm Gladwell here.

This season on Revisionous History,

we're going back to the spring of 1988

to a town in northwest Alabama

where a man committed a crime

that would spiral out of control.

And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years.

That's probably not long enough.

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