To Supporters from Seattle to Rome: A Grateful Thank You from Amanda Knox

[pnwmom]

http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/amanda-knox-moving-forward-with-gratitude-and-a-purpose/

Throughout these past seven and a half years, knowledge of my innocence propelled me forward. Your kindness sustained me. I am, and forever will be, grateful to the many people who helped me survive when I was at my most vulnerable and almost entirely lost. To them I say, thank you. Many times over, thank you.

After so many years of trial and uncertainty, I feel relieved and grateful for the decision of Italy’s highest court to find me innocent of Meredith Kercher’s murder. And I am equally grateful that Raffaele Sollecito can now also move past his own wrongful conviction. I am acutely aware, however, that this story does not have a happy ending. Unlike a wrongful conviction, which can be overturned, nothing will ever bring Meredith Kercher back to her family and loved ones.

Whatever the future holds for me, I know that I must give back. I survived because my dear family gave up their lives to be with me in Italy, because scores of friends donated their resources, because my lawyers worked tirelessly to bring attention to the evidence that exonerated me, because strangers — from world-renowned DNA experts to former FBI crime-scene investigators to everyday citizens — saw the injustice in my case and spoke out, and because kind residents of Seattle gave me jobs to help me financially while I tried to clear my name. I will do everything I can to pay forward all everyone has done for me.

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Editor’s note
Amanda Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito were acquitted last week of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, Knox’s former roommate in Perugia, Italy. The ruling by Italy’s high court ended the eight-year prosecution and appellate case, which included Knox spending almost four years in Italian prison before returning home to Seattle in 2011.

[riderinthestorm]

1. I read that she's working as a journalist for the local newspaper

I hope she and Rafaele Sollecito and the Kerchers can find some peace now.

Thanks for posting this.

[pnwmom]

2. She is. Some of her pieces for the West Seattle paper are posted on her blog

at amandaknox.com

I believe I also heard she's been working in a bookstore.