Chapter 2: From Daughter to Prisoner
Later, when a coup broke out, I fell from being the governor’s daughter to a prisoner.
It all unraveled in a single week: armed convoys on Main Street, the smell of gun oil and fried chicken mixing in the humid air, our family home ringed by yellow tape and angry protesters waving homemade signs. One minute I was sipping sweet tea on the porch; the next, I was cuffed and shoved into a National Guard van.