“Fame has its advantages. In the life I had left behind there were a lot of hangers on who leeched off my notoriety and clung on, as if some of the attention in the spotlight might pass through to them. They were burnt like errant moths to the flame. I did what I did to survive. I thought I was acting rationally but you can’t tell a crazy person she is crazy. Here, at HMP Holloway, I was left alone.” - An excerpt from Try Me

Forgive and Forget? Or roast in hell forever?
What is it like, having done all these things to start afresh and is acceptance hard? Do people forgive and forget and let ex-cons move on with their lives?

Farah’s book, Try Me, ‘holds nothing back’ revealing some excruciatingly honest and  personal details about sex, drugs and lies. Damji has embraced her mistakes, telling a story of a woman’s identity and one that many multicultural and even monocultural women women will embrace. Forgive her and let her move on or continue to burn her at the stake of our own unforgiving natures?
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