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‘I’m feeling paralysed’: they arrested my friends for protesting on campus | Grey Battle
We chose Yale and it chose us, but one party was betrayed
“Oliver was arrested this morning. 13 students arrested,” Ella texted me at 8.27am, “No, 45.”
“Are you awake? Should we go? I’m feeling paralyzed right now.”
Grey Battle studies political science at Yale University. She grew up in Birmingham, Alabama
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