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Amanda Knox

(this pastiche pertaining to maya own inc ore pore rated poetic patois promulgated many moons ago from those screaming bloody thirsty headlines from the Italian court for justice sans the brutal homicide attributed to this then American college student and her ex-boyfriend). with the assiduous vigor of a cadre of volunteers brought sought after fruition of freedom per the release of imprisoned young (twenty something) American lass whose former life sentenced commuted to egress from an Italian jail to her home within Seattle, Washington whereby family, friends and strangers who fought for her liberation breathed one palpable surprising sigh of euphoric relief when the plane who boarded landed safely on the tarmac of SEATAC aswarm with frenzied television camera crews scrambled to get the initial scoop and what promises to land this once anonymous cell bait an undisclosed amount of lucre which many on the other side of the pond find mind boggling if not downright objectionable moreso livid with rage against the Machiavellian machine on account of supposed culpability in tandem with her then boy friend accused (under the guise of guilty fiat) sans homicide of college roommate now sought after garnering this fawning female (salaciously tagged by Perugian court with the sobriquet “she wolf” now faces a future replete with riches aplenty allowing gravity of ugly epithet plus stigma from accusation of murder to serve as basis for what will no doubt be a best seller not to mention made for the silver screen blockbuster with subsequent royal carpet treatment to compensate for guilty judgment decreed without tangible evidence nor fair trial to boot!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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