FALL RIVER -- In the minutes before Aaron Hernandez slumped into his seat, facing the reality of eternal imprisonment, Shayanna Jenkins pulled a single tissue from her purse.
Jenkins, the loyal girlfriend, had come prepared on this day. Dressed in all black, she arrived early, as she usually did, and spent some of the morning reading on her Kindle, like she always does. But when it was announced that the jury had reached a verdict after 36 hours of deliberation, Jenkins, who had been as stone-cold throughout this entire thing as Hernandez, readied herself for what was to come.