Kevin Strickland left behind a world of gray concrete and iron one year ago, exonerated after spending 43 years, most of his life, in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

"The year doesn't seem like a year, but I know it's very real," Strickland said.

He is free to come and go as he pleases now, but there's one piece of his old life he can't shake.

"I wrassled with concrete and iron in the penitentiary for many years, so I'm not comfortable unless I'm moving iron around," he said.

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