It was a stroll in the park to him; he had met an acquaintance on the street,” wrote Sebold, who is white. ‘Don’t I know you from somewhere?’”She said she didn’t respond. “He was smiling as he approached. “‘Hey, girl,’ he said. He recognized me.
Sebold wrote that when she was informed that she’d picked someone other than the man she’d previously identified as her attacker, she said the two looked “almost identical.”She wrote that she realized the defense would be “a panicked white girl saw a black man on the street.