COLUMBUS (WCMH) — C. Ray clocked about five hours in bed Thursday night into Friday morning. From the finishing touches on master’s commencement preparations to meeting with an incarcerated woman whose mother died that same morning, to an evening bartending shift at a Cheesecake Factory across the city, very few blanks manifested themselves on her Google calendar last week. More than 12,000 graduate from Ohio State She was still trying to squeeze in time to decorate her graduation hat for the weekend’s ceremonies — maybe, she said, with the mugshots of a friend or two. “So they can walk with me,” Ray said. It was not busy like this a few years ago. A few years ago, she had more time to — and for — herself. “I was such a good version of myself when I was incarcerated,” Ray said. “I would drink my coffee, I would go work…
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