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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Jesse Goolsby

Pollice Verso

January 1, 2014

Jesse Goolsby

Three months after his prison stint for starting a forest fire that killed a man, Armando’s father drives his family past the Supermax outside Florence, Colorado. He’s in good spirits. “You know the guy that invented the Richter scale? Dude … Continued

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