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Go to Economist.com and get your first month free. The Our guest this week is a perfect example of what life as a prosecutor was like. You meet people who amaze you with

their courage and their conviction and their character, but you wish you'd never met them because you

met them because of a tragedy because something bad happened. Someone did

something cruel and painful to someone else and that is how I met

Rebecca Howard. He's the aunt of Tamika Houston who was a beautiful

young woman. It went missing in Spartanburg, South Carolina, my hometown and I

met Rebecca through that process and have continued to follow her and her career and life has brought us back together.

With that, Rebecca, thank you for joining us.

How are you?

Doing well, thank you for having me.

It's good to see you after all these years.

All right, I want you first to tell us about yourself,

and then I want you to tell us about Tamika.

Sure. I am a non-practicing attorney very early on in my legal career I decided that it really wasn't the path that I wanted to take so I really

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