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By Imy Brighty-Potts & Imy Brighty-Potts Wayne Burgess, 61, who was locked up for 24 years for a crime he didn’t do, says the world is totally new to him now. He went to prison in 1999 and missed out on big things like 9/11 and the invention of the iPhone. Now that he’s out, he feels like he’s been born again into a “brand new world.” “Everything has changed since I went in and came out like a newborn baby out in the world. A brand new world,” said Wayne Burgess. He was put in jail in 1999 after being found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend’s 16-month-old daughter in Pulaski, Tennessee. W…

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