00:00This was 1993, the last day I was with them in the free world.
00:05With each incarceration, a family serves a sentence.
00:10Before the separation, she was my best friend.
00:14When she came home, as happy as I was, my soul was just exhausted.
00:19It's bittersweet.
00:21Looking at my kids kind of reminds me of where my life could have been.
00:26Mama.
00:27How do you rebuild a family?
00:31If you've been out of somebody like 23 years, that's how long it'd probably take to get things back to
00:37normal.
00:38I am home, but I am not free.
00:41I am not free because my sisters are not free.
00:44I'm just trying to figure this whole freedom thing out.
00:48What's my purpose?
00:50Commuted, a special edition of Afro Pop and America Refrain.
00:54Directed by Neila Jefferson and produced in collaboration with Danielle Metz.
00:59Let's go.
01:02I'm absent alive.
01:04I am not free from my dad.
01:19I saw a special edition of Afro Pop and America interfere.
01:20You
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