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Eastern State
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2021-02-10 09:41:55Even though she had seen pictures and videos, looked at maps, and had it described to her numerous times, Cadence still wasn’t prepared for the enormity of Eastern State Penitentiary. Standing on the outside, looking up at the massive structure, it was hard to imagine what it must have been like to know you’d be spending years—maybe decades—entrapped inside, coming through the colossal outside wall into the building as a prisoner.
It had taken several vehicles to transport them all to the site, and they had parked them all in various locations a few blocks away so that
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