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So very well said.

Great article. *hugs*

Thanks for this, Amanda. Best wishes.

A beautiful tribute to Meredith. Someday perhaps her family will heal and realize that you to were a victim and completely innocent of the vicious assault and murder of her.

But Amanda, in your own Netflix doc, even you claim that you and Meredith weren't the best of friends. Seems near the end, Meredith wanted nothing to do with a "drugged up tart".

I feel for you. I lost my best friend of 67 years. I too rejoice in the memories and can't believe your time with Meredith ended so tragically. She was not my friend yet I feel, because her name an picture entered my home many times, I somewhat know her. Bless you for not letting her memory die.

In the Netflix documentary she says they had been friend for just about forty days and here she says that Meredith was her closest friend in a new and exciting time in their life ... which indeed lasted just about forty days.
So basically the closest friend in that specific context and not bar none, which is simply realistic.

Meredith is gone way too soon and you are so right, our lives were touched by her death and we will remember her long after the tabloids forget her. ?

A wonderful tribute to a beautiful girl from a beautiful girl. I am absolutely sure that Amanda is sincere in wanting to mourn Meredith who was viciously murdered by a crazed burglar. It is such a pity that the world was given such a horrific, inaccurate story, made up by an incompetent prosecutor and a careless press. It is an even greater pity that so many believe this horror story. I long for the day when Meredith's family will be able to see the truth and understand that the two young students, who were wrongfully imprisoned and suffered greatly, were completely innocent. Meredith's family are a shining example to us all and deserve to be freed from this doubt that has been troubling them from this unfair trial. Just think about it, if Amanda had stayed at Raffaele's and not gone home for a shower that morning, they would never have been implicated in any way because they were not.

Thank you Amanda for sharing those memories of Meredith. I wish the world could of seen the pictures of your friendship.

You are allowed to mourn and grieve her now.... cherish your memories and know that you are good in your heart... good in your soul.... and only you can really know that... thank you for sharing... be kind to yourself... and remember your angels are watching over you... someday humans will live in a world where rape & murder do not exist anymore...

The men who worked so hard to turn the public against you cheapened her legacy. Tonight, your words have given a bit back to her. Well done.

even niow the doubters and haters are on this article, your very own sanctum iof sanity and where you get to mourn your friend who was brutally taken from this world. I would like to send all the doubters and haters to the http://www.injusticeinperugia.org website, let them wade through all the court documents, read transcripts, read testamonies, and view the evidence and the pictures, then come back here and dare say anything against your innocence.

You have a lot of good memories of Meredith., I think you honor her more than her parents did. Perhaps someday soon that the Kercher's will apologize to you for buying into that idiot theory that Guede did not act alone. As a Christian I hope to be reunited with all that I loved by the grace of God. I hope it is your belief also.

Amanda is a victim of a false accusation and she is simply writing about her loss of a friend that she had for 40 days. When you boil down the situation Amanda has that right and the WHOLE world owes Amanda a huge apology. I feel so terrible for your pain and suffereing Amanda. I’ve been falsely accused of something and had a whole gang of people turn on me and it’s positively horrific on every level. I have severe PTSD from it and the pain has never went away.

It seems unlikely that Knox murdered Meredith Kercher, but if she did, this article would be awfully cruel to the Kercher family. A bunch of people, at one time, believed that she did just that including members of the Kercher family.

The oddest thing about this whole thing is the very light sentence given to the 3rd person involved. It was a brutal murder and that sentence was very light. Presumably Guede is still in prison- however, he has been let out on at least one short term furlough.

If I was Ms Knox, I'd let sleeping dogs lie.

Amanda still can bring a tear to my eye, and give cause to deep reflection. Perhaps the saddest amongst us are those who shed no tears for anyone.

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I cannot comprehend the anguish of being a murder victim’s family any more than I can comprehend being damned by witch-hunt for something I did not do. But Stephanie Kercher used the 10th anniversary event to insinuate that Amanda was involved. So let us not pretend this was all about remembering Meredith.

Prosecutor Mignini wreaked similar havoc on The Monster of Florence and Dr. Narducci suicide cases, turning lone male actions into bizarre group crime conspiracies, tormenting over 20 innocent suspects and journalists, and blocking closure for victims’ families.

What a load of crap. "I have to dig through a decade of suffering..." You're alive and Meredith is dead. Her family suffers while you continue to make it all about you. You are a vile person obsessed with you and only you. You are clearly a sociopath. You got away with murder so just shut up and go away. Every time you open your selfish mouth, you turn the knife into the Kercher's already deep wounds. Let them heal. Leave them alone!

Thank you, Amanda, for sharing those loving thoughts of your flatmate and friend. It may be some comfort that Meredith’s senseless killing, and yours and Raffaele’s unjust imprisonment and fight for justice changed other lives too. Belatedly as a retired doctor living near Perugia, I awoke as did others at the end of your first trial to the fact that I might be in a unique position to do something. There was doubtless some guilt that 30 years before I had not acted on behalf of an innocent patient of mine, Stefan Kiszko, who was framed and convicted in England for the murder of 11 year old Leslie Molseed (see ISBN 9781909976351). Becoming involved in your fight for justice led me to an understanding of the psychopathology of violent crime and unjust retribution so often inflicted on innocent bystanders. And the way in which effective public prosecutors, selected for their lack empathy, may target the innocent within faulted and medieval systems such as we see in Italy, the UK and USA (see for example Darlie Routier on Death Row in Texas). In the case of Italy there are major structural failures in the system which give too much power to one individual, and allow the innocent to be sucked into a judicial black hole from which there is usually no exit. Current instances are the convictions of Massimo Bossetti; of Olinda Romano and his wife Angela Rosa Bazzi; and of Sabrina Miseri and her mother Cosima Serrano. Like yours, these are all cases driven by incompetent and/or malicious prosecutors, the press and TV shows, suspect-centricity, Italy’s love of the convoluted story and the need after a brutal murder to convict at all costs.

It’s incredible how stupid, ignorant, and mean some people are.

Beautifully said. I am glad you are speaking your mind freely, it is your absolute right.

You write an essay dedicated to celebrating the memory of that young lady yet everything keeps coming back to you. Every memory you mention quickly comes right back to you. This whole essay is about you. And yes- you are alive and she is not. Those are the facts and no one wants to hear about your memories of a young woman who doesn’t have the opportunity to support or rebut your statements. This is eerily similar to OJ writing a book “If I did it” it’s like pouring salt on the wound. Let this young lady Rest In Peace. Allow her family the right to not have to hear their loved ones name drudged up- yet again. Stop it. Just stop it. Use your freedom and your time to be a catalyst for change in the world and stop uttering this young woman’s name. Millions of ppl are wrongfully charged, sent to prison every day. Yet your message is always about you. You. You. You.

No normal person in their right mind would make a career out of this situation like you have. How anyone can't see this is beyond me. Westside Seattle should never have published this. Luckily, it's not picking up national attention. They've moved on to oJ, which you are quite a bit like.

I feel this is a narcissistic tribute. It is all about Amanda....and I ask Amanda when can you stop making this death all about you. If Meredith was my daughter I would be hurt by this writing. You knew her for a short time and have come right out about not liking her....and I am sure she told stories about her roommate to her family. Like it or not you are caught up in their grief. Please have some restraint. If you are grieving do it privately. I for one am tired of your narcissistic ways being published. And Westside Seattle should know better.

Please Let Meredith just rest in peace. I’m truly sorry for what you went through but every time you speak on Meredith it just brings more pain to her family. Yes, what you experienced was tragic and horrible but how many times must you remind us? The silver lining is you are here and she is not. You have every right to mourn Meredith but I don’t understand why you have to do it publicly? It seems extremely self serving. .

So sad that you still have to crop up in our news feeds when we want to remember a beautiful girl that was taken far too soon. You can mourn privately - have some respect for the family and stop commenting on it - if they are not making public statements you certainly shouldnt be. DNA will out in the end. One day she will receive justice.

The Kercher's lawyer Maresca spewed vile insults against Amanda while she sat in prison for years unable to defend herself. John Kercher gave strategic interviews with the Daily Mail scandal rag, timed to coincide with each court hearing during the first appeals trial, to deflect attention away from the independent expert testimony.

The Kerchers have a right to say whatever they want. So does Amanda. She will be damned by some if she does mention Meredith and damned by mostly the same people if she doesn't.

Even the final appeal court that acquitted you said that you were there in the apartment that night and that you therefore lied about what happened that night for reasons unknown. That was part of the final written judgment before your release. So whatever you say about this matter can never be taken at face value. Enough - "let it be" once and for all.

Such a cruel dichotomy. Peace to you and all that loved Merideth

The multi-attacker fantasy was promoted by both the defense and prosecution in Rudy Guede's separate trials where Amanda and Raffaele had no legal representation. The Italian Supreme Court Panel of 2010 that finalized. Guede's conviction also finalized "multiple attackers".

The judicial system proceeded to break Italian and European law, not to mention the presumption of innocence foundation of Western law, by bringing this conclusion over to A and K's separate trials.

The Supreme Court Panel of 2015 (final appeal court) couldn't muster up the courage to reverse the previous panel, but give them credit for stopping the farce.

Thanks for sharing all that, Amanda. I know it's hard, but I still pray for you, your family, and Meredith's family. No one should have to go through what you all have endured. Your courage and patience is inspiring. Thank you.

1) You are inhibiting free speech and honest discussion by filtering out the majority of contra-Amanda comments and you should feel shame for your disservice to Meredith Kercher.

2) Unlike the majority of Innocence Project benefactors, there is a MOUNTAIN of evidence that Amanda was complicit in Meredith's death.

3) I do feel for you, especially the day when you realize that a co-worker of yours was complicit in a murder of a 21 year old girl, and then lied about it (even changing her "story" which continues to evolve even today). You may need therapy once you come to that realization.

I feel that the essay was done very nicely. Amanda tried to remember the good things about her relationship with Meredith and didn't put down Meredith in any way, which Amanda could have done. Of course others are saying oh Meredith isn't here to defend herself, No Meredith's family is here to defend her, putting down Amanda, constantly letting everybody know that they think Amanda did it. Well Amanda was acquitted twice she was allowed to come back to the United States and live. It hasn't been easy because of course there's people like the ones in this response section that are pretty nasty.

Neither does Meredith's family allow her to live. They keep picking up the sword and making accusations. They keep pointing and poking, making sure the world knows that Meredith was wrongfully murdered and that the people got away with it.

Maybe if Meredith's family would go and look at the reality of the documentation in regards to the case on the site up above they would figure out that maybe they should allow Meredith to rest. They should go on with their lives. Let It Go.

Besides it's focused on them, it's always going to be focused on the living victims. Amanda is a living victim. The family is a living victim. Whenever we are a victim of this type of situation no matter how hard we try to keep it focused on the the person who was murdered it's focuses on ourselves because we're the living victim of it. I'm a living victim of my brother's death no body found, no conviction, not enough evidence. Whenever I speak about it it's about me I can't help that.

That's the way it is when you're a victim it is about you. So Amanda has a right to voice her feelings. Meredith's parents have a right to focus on themselves but when you start focusing it on someone else that has been found innocent in a court of law twice then their words are just sound bites for voracious consumers of sensationalistic journalism. I didn't see Amanda complain about Meredith's parents drawing a sword and trying to pull more blood from her. I didn't see Amanda even really going after the prosecutors or anything. She just talked about what had been the happy moments in a relationship with Meredith.

We all have memories where there's those bright moments of time where we enjoyed a roommate and then we all have those memories of the dark times when we didn't get along. They're spun together through our memories and I don't think there's anybody on this site who could say they got along 100% of the time perfectly with their roommate there was only 40 days ,in this situation not enough time to really get to know each other. Enough time to have the basic problems of getting to know each other. That's the reality of relationships and if there's anybody on the site can say they had a perfect memory of who they used to hang out with then they were very lucky.

Amanda spoke of what happened to her and her friend. Her friend is still on going in the fight in Italy and hold those who caused this injustice to task. Even though he's been acquitted, he is suing the prosecutor Etc I find that quite interesting he wouldn't be suing if he didn't think he could win.

So let us give everybody a break and decide that maybe the court was right. Amanda paid 4 years of her life in prison. Italy is not a cakewalk incarceration. .

Amanda spoke well to Merediths memory, to what happened to her and her friend, after Meredith died and what a waste everything that time entailed was I believe she's paid enough but for those of you who want her to suffer the rest of her life she will, you'll make sure of that.

If you read the article, you will see the struggle Amanda faces when dealing with what is not only her friends Murder but also a large chapter in her own life. There are only a handful of these Guilters left, they are a nasty hurtful group, but very vocal, taking every opportunity to prey on the innocent. I like reading this work, it is a beautiful insight. Stay in the public realm, Amanda, don't let a few idiots try to limit the potential of your life!

The comment "...(even changing her "story" which continues to evolve even today)" is not true. Amanda was badgered for 53 hours over half a week during a period of trauma, increasing sleep deprivation and the paranoia that comes along with it, in a language still foreign to her,. Then comes the illegal "unrecorded" coup de grace finale in the middle-of-the-night complete with police lies, threats, suggestions, the bungled interpretation of a text message between A and Patrick, and a police interpreter masquerading as a "mediator" "helping" her to "remember". Amanda signs incriminating documents typed up for her in Italian. And people claim she changed her story. This is Mind Rape.and I recommend googling Richard Leo, Saul Kassan and Mark Godsey to learn how often this repulsive guilt presumptive interrogation technique ensnares the innocent around the world. It's an epidemic.

Amanda writes a note to police that day (Nov. 6), as she struggles to regain her sanity, warning them not to trust any she said during that torture session. And people claim she changed her story again.

She writes another note the next day (Nov. 7) stating she had nothing to do with Meredith's death and doesn't know who does. The judicial system will suffer collective amnesia regarding this note in the years to come, claiming that Amanda didn't retract her accusation against Patrick.

Meanwhile Mignini is denying legal access to A and Raffaele so that only he gets to prepare for the first hearing on Nov. 10. A's lawyers meet her at the hearing and tell her not to speak because they don't have a clue what's going on. After the hearing A tells them she has no idea what happened to Meredith. Again she will be blamed for not retracting her accusation against Patrick

This treatment of Amanda would have been forgivable if the authorities owned up to it as soon as the evidence arrived nailing the cat burglar Guede. Instead they doubled down into a railroad job, complete with conflicting police testimony about the treatment of Amanda.

http://www.amandaknoxcase.com/the-interrogation

The only thing Amanda was ever guilty of was being young and stupid. We've all been guilty of that, but most of us are luck we never suffered through what she suffered through. What no one else realizes is Amanda was a also political pawn--an American in a foreign country that got taken advantage of by that country out of the spite many countries have for America and Americans. She deserves a damn medal for what she went through.

You and your words make me sick. You should just stay quiet.. You got away with murder and now you should just live your life quietly.

Amanda rubbing salt in the wounds of the grieving family. Sociopathic murderer she should just keep her mouth shut.

imo, Amanda is the opposite of sociopathic. Her empathy and kindness to others were legendary during her school years.

As she was enjoying her first weeks in Perugia, Guede was on his 5-week break-in spree including knives, rocks, 2nd story windows, and hanging out in kitchens. He was even caught in Milan and released upon the request of the Perugia police, dooming Meredith in a few days time.

http://www.amandaknoxcase.com/rudy-guede/

Oh please! Leave the Kercher family alone! If you truly felt this was a tribute to Meredith, then you would have left your "poor me" words out of it, which was most of your article. And if you were truly innocent of the crime, you wouldn't have to be defending yourself all the time. We know.

Well said - I have followed your story from the beginning, and was actually living in Italy as an au pair when you were originally arrested. I was always struck by the fact that Meredith herself would be horrified by the unjust arrest of both you and Rafaelle. You are entitled to your grief, no matter what anyone says.

I think you should wait to write about her death until your anger over being tried and convicted is out of your system, or at least keep them separate . Your heart is in the write place, But you have to let go of what others think of you . All that matters is you and your family and the people that love and know you. I was disappointed to read the words change to "you" and your time in prison. Let it go , you are a mature young woman. You should be getting back to your goals in life, as we all know it can disappear at any time

Amanda - Anyone who has studied your case knows what happened. You, and particularly Raffaele were subjected to prosecutorial misconduct of the highest order. Your strength (I know you say I had no choice but you could easily just go crazy with what you suffered) , your dignity and your continued courage are an inspiration to everyone. Thank you for remembering Meredith, whose memory has been wronged by the false claims; she deserves to be in our thoughts. The last communication you had with her was a text kiss from her to you, remember that and continue to fight. You job now is to continue what you have always done fight for what you know is right.

Thanks for sharing your feelings. Sorry that the hate mongers infest the internet and for what you had to endure as a very young adult. Yes, you are still alive, but it could just as easily have been your family mourning a dead daughter and another family's daughter falsely accused, wrongfully incarcerated and dealing with unwarranted attacks and criticism. You have enormous support in the community and should never feel reluctant to share your story.

I have been following your story since the first day it was on the news. I’m a fellow Seattle girl and I can remember screaming at the television during your trial. Your friendship with Meredith was beautiful and it is terrible that you had to endure such pain and wrongful suffering. I can’t imagine a close friend being killed in such a horrific way. I’m sorry you ever had to experience what you did. You are so incredibly strong Amanda. You have more strength and bravery in your oonky finger than most people have In their whole body. Keep writing, keep reminding people of your story, and most importantly- know that so many people support you and are 100% behind you.

Part of how we heal from and reconcile the events of trauma is in the creation of Narratives and “Stories”. Anyone who knew Meredith Kercher or was touched by the events of November 2007 has been impacted; some profoundly and irrevocably. In reading Amanda’s essay, it is clear that there are many more chapters for her to write. It is up to the audience to decide if they want to read it. By the way, Amanda, who was the intended audience?

Part of how we heal from and reconcile the events of trauma is in the creation of Narratives and “Stories”. Anyone who knew Meredith Kercher or was touched by the events of November 2007 has been impacted; some profoundly and irrevocably. In reading Amanda’s essay, it is clear that there are many more chapters for her to write. It is up to the audience to decide if they want to read it. By the way, Amanda, who was the intended audience?

Amanda, I feel for you immensely and I know what it’s like to write something when your suffering with overwhelming emotions, your memories with Meredith are pure and beautiful. And you have every right to write about your memories to memorialise your time together. Although this was to be a tribute to Meredith, you should have stuck to that goal of keeping it a tribute, and leaving out the parts of your wrongful imprisonment and points you made about your suffering. That story has been told many times and this being your friends 10 year anniversary, should have been focused on the good memories you shared together. Don’t listen to anyone who has negative things to say, the world knows the truth now, and people are just looking for someone to blame. Kudos to you Amanda. Stay strong.