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Because in that moment, Peg Dahl realized she didn’t want to escape Buffalo. She wanted to own the parts of it that everyone else was too tired to fight for. The abandoned warehouses on the East Side. The loophole in the city’s towing ordinance. The old men who still settled bets with envelopes of cash and a handshake that meant nothing and everything.

She smiled.

“Your Honor,” Peg began, “the motorcycle in question was purchased with funds stolen from my mother’s nursing home fund. I have bank statements, a sworn affidavit from a psychic who saw the whole thing, and a photograph of the defendant wearing a T-shirt that says ‘I ❤️ Fraud.’ The shirt is arguably the strongest evidence.” buffaloed 2019