She lived, now, in a small studio, her social standing gone, the borrowed luxury she had stolen a honeymoon of long since repossessed.

Jessi remained at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, serving out her four years; her petitions for early parole kept being denied by the board, in no small part because of the video footage that was now, and would forever be, a permanent part of her record.

Some things you say on camera follow you the rest of your life.

That sentence at the thermostat was going to follow my mother to the end of hers.

At the bottom of the report was a short note from my attorney. Mr.

Sterling, your mother’s court-appointed representative reached out to ask whether you would be open to receiving a letter from the facility for the holidays.