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Hey Crys!
My name is Ciarra Burch and I just wanted to ask you if you are the Crystal Roberson that used to work with me at Health Markets a little over 4 years ago! I had the biggest crush on her and would love to talk!

Sincerely,
Ciarra Burch

If you can email... My email is burch.ciarra@gmail.com

Thats some good words of wisdom. Nice to know you realize how you once were and have changed it. Good for you

Your outlook on prison life seems incredibly educated and intellectual. It is unfortunate the way that our society looks at people that are incarcerated. However, I am not totally sure why you are in prison. However, I do agree with you that if prison is supposed to rehabilitate its prisoners to function in a socially accepted manner, it should treat them in a way that can foster positive futures. I'm glad the Between the Bars blog exists, just for the fact that it can show me what its truly like for people living in prison.

Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post. I'd like to know more on the subject you were writing about. Was this a girl you knew?

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Hi Joseph,

This is the first transcription I have done for Between the Bars, so it's appropriate that I read your evocative piece about your first experiences in prison. You paint the contrast of the beauty of nature and the harshness of your prison environment really clearly.

Elizabeth-Anne

I really hope that you are soon placed with your fellow women.

Hmm...you probably want to read much from me so i figured i might as well just tell you about TSS. TSS is short for Teton Science School. On Oct. 14 I left to go there. While there our class room was outside. The great Teton is beautiful. It is REALLY different compered to the Smoky Mountains. The Smoky's are eroded down while the Tetons are tall and jagged from the glaciers. We played some really fun team building games.One game included Lava River its when you try to get at the other side of a distance. The only way to cross the river is if you are standing on a mat. If you are not touching the mat then it floats down the river. The other game was peanut butter river. In order to cross the river, you have to be wearing Joshes(our teacher) hat. I crossed the river by having Colter give me a piggy back ride.It was really fun going on long hikes. My favored day was Wednesday. We got rained on. My pants was soaked and my shirt dry. Funny thing is that after it stopped raining i took my jacket off and found a rainbow on it. It was really weird but its cool too. Hmm...Well I'm bored of talkin' bout TSS. Today is the day after Halloween. I was Yesterday. I'm tryin' ta send ya a pic of me and Weston but it won't let me. Weston wants me to talk 'bout him but I don't think you'd like ta hear 'bout him. All I can say is Halloween was awesome and funny. Awesome cuz I got to hang out with my buddz. Funny cuz Weston was trying to put smarties in my hand...it took him an hour and STILL failed. In math He tried again when we were finished. He ended up leaving to Basketball practice very irritated. hehehe I love getting on his nerves. Okay well I need to go. I gotta catch a bus and ask Wes 'bout his practice. Goo bye and love you lots
~Eleanor~

That's a really beautiful piece. The style reminds me of The Water-Lily Pond by Claude Monet.

Ask Sean if he ever said his older two boys meant nothing to him. Ask him if he said he would not speak to the oldest again because he did not say thank you for some gift Sean gave him. Ask Sean if he said he does not even know his kids and that they are nothing more than fat ulazy mexicans. Ask him. And when he "swears" to you he did not say those things then he will have lied once again. He did say those things.