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Asia McClain, a classmate of Adnan’s, said that she saw and talked to Adnan that day at the exact time the prosecution claims he was murdering Hae and calling Jay from a payphone at Best Buy that doesn't exist. Asia is one of the very few people who have stuck to the exact same story as they told 17 years ago. Asia wrote Adnan letters in prison, discussing their conversation at the library where she was waiting for a drive. I believe her account of that day because she is unbiased, she doesn’t know if Adnan is innocent or guilty, she just knows what she saw that day, that’s it. She has nothing to win or lose in this case. Asia remembers that day clearly because as she stated in her letters, it was the first snow of the year, which ended in

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