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Andrea McArdle*
* ©Professor of Law, City University of New York School of Law (CUNY). My thanks to the organizers of the Third Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, held at the Sturm College of Law, Denver, Colorado, for the opportunity to present an earlier version of this article, and to CUNY Law Dean Michelle Anderson and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Penelope Andrews for their personal and institutional support of faculty scholarship. Many thanks also to Melody Daily, Sara Gordon, Joan Ames Magat, Sue Painter-Thorne, and Ruth Anne Robbins for their insightful and sensitive editing. Finally, a note of thanks to my students in the Writing from a Judicial Perspective Seminar at CUNY Law School, whose appreciation of the power of narrative and the importance of empathy in judging inspired this article.