Living without papers: it can be done.

Thomas Ball stabbed a girl in 1963. He did a dozen years in the Michigan pen, then got sent to the funny farm...where he escaped. Wednesday he was arrested.

He hooked up with a woman named Dollie Martin in Tennessee, who didn't ask many questions about his past, and helped him get jobs. She died last year, so he applied for federal assistance. That was his undoing.

I don't condone stabbing girls, and think 20-40 is a little light for that. I don't condone women being patsies. But going to prison for filing for federal benefits dulce et decorum est. And I have to honor his resourcefulness in evading the police for so long. The moral of the story? Your relationships will carry you farther than anything else in life.

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