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### **Introduction: Welcome to the Hood, Harvard**
Elle Hoods never asked to be anybody's hero. She wasn't born into privilege, wasn't handed golden retrievers or pastel stationery, and certainly wasn't raised on the polished law books that decide who's guilty based on nothing more than syntax and spectacle. No—Elle learned law in the streets, in the cracks of a broken system, where justice wasn't written in Latin but carved into survival.
For too long, the world had taken the hood and turned it into a punchline. Crime statistics, news reports, and carefully rehearsed government statements all painted her community in broad strokes—violence, lawlessness, lost causes. They never asked *why*. They never looked deeper. They never saw the brilliance beneath the struggle.
But Elle did. And she wasn't about to let the world keep gaslighting people into believing their worth was measured by whether or not they fit into a system rigged against them. When society wrote off her people, she picked up a pen and rewrote the verdict.
So when Elle Hoods walked into Harvard Law—not through legacy, not through donations, but through sheer *unstoppable proof* that she belonged—she knew she had one mission:
Flip the courtroom script. Shatter the illusion of justice. And make sure the world finally listened.
Because in the hood, survival *is* law. And Elle Hoods was about to prove that when the system fails its people, its people find a way to rewrite the rules.
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