Word: cave
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...took another flight into verbal fancy. "Nothing of value is free," he declared. "It is very easy... to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where common sense is lured and then quietly strangled...
...years later, after Pitonyak was given a life sentence for the murder, Austin firemen and policemen who followed Sedwick into the apartment are still undergoing counseling, Cave says. Sedwick and her family are also being counseled by therapists and the family priest. But all that help still can't prevent daily, commonplace events from triggering the horrible memories. "We don't eat anything in our house that is carved and there is a certain type of garbage bag with a red cinch that we don't use," Cave says...
...agonizing as the recounting of her daughter's murder during the trial was to bear for Cave herself, she also worried about the jurors, four of whom weren't yet 30 years old. At one point during the trial a young juror cried softly all day. Soon after the verdict Cave begin researching the issue of juror counseling, and what she found was not much comfort. Jury counseling, or debriefing as it is sometimes called, has been used in several high-profile cases including the trial of Jeffrey Dahmer and the Oklahoma City bombing case, according to the National Center...
...After the proposed legislation was announced, Cave says she was overwhelmed with e-mails and phone calls from jurors across the state who had been haunted by what they saw and heard during their service. "My heart goes out to them. These are people who are trying to do their job - people like me, people with a couple of kids who have to go home from this each day and cook supper, do homework," Cave says. "The more they are told not to talk about something, the harder it becomes to ever talk about...
...Cave is celebrating her daughter's 23rd birthday by lobbying Texas legislators and hoping that by the time an alleged accomplice goes on trial this summer, the counseling program will be in place. "Jennifer is gone, but the life she had remains," Cave says. "I tried to give everything in my heart to those jurors, and it would be a travesty if we don't take care of them. But as they say, tragedy is often the catalyst for change...