When I read that very first blog response by Bobby I could almost hear the joy and love in her voice. Considering that none of us have ever met I find this quite significant. :-)
As I told her some time ago that the road she chosen is a bumpy road and sometimes there are tears, but...
Most of the time it is such sheer and unadulterated joy that you need to pinch yourself to make sure it is real.
Happy new year to both of you I am so glad you found each other - we all deserve happiness, no matter how it is presnted to us. Much love for 2012 - Axe
Hiya Paul. Good to hear from you buddy. I’m glad that Bobby received my information, if ever she needs to know ANYTHING I am just an e-mail away. Hope the holidays turned out okay. This is what happened: I decided to do a “good deed” and write to someone in prison. My so called good deed became a journey of enlightenment. I became firm friends with the guy I was writing to who is in Texas. The more I found out about the penal system in the USA the more my horror grew. I had opened the door to the dark heart of America. Americans do not understand that is not the way the rest of the world operates, "we are Americans everything we do is the best so it follows that our Prisons are the best in the world." End of argument. As you and I both know they might actually be the worst in the free world. I have one rule that I apply diligently and that is that I can say or do nothing that can impact negatively on my friend. I check everything that I do that is new with this rule before I go ahead with it. Having said that I feel that I have to find out where the system is flawed and use it to my advantage, hence the advice I gave Bobby. This is obviously not the right forum for this discussion, but I will get something to you by regular mail in the next few days. The mail from Africa takes forever so please be patient. Axe
My name is Joe and I just wanted to say hi and let you know that I will be transcribing your posts into typed text from the scans of your letters here on behindthebars.com.
The conversions will be exact with just a few exceptions. Those being where line breaks shift when the text is put online and other things related to posting online. However, everything else will be word for word including the spelling as you wrote it. For your handwritten posts, I will do my best to convert them accurately as well.
Stay safe and I will drop you a line when I have more of your writing transcribed.
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As I told her some time ago that the road she chosen is a bumpy road and sometimes there are tears, but...
Most of the time it is such sheer and unadulterated joy that you need to pinch yourself to make sure it is real.
Happy new year to both of you I am so glad you found each other - we all deserve happiness, no matter how it is presnted to us. Much love for 2012 - Axe
This is what happened: I decided to do a “good deed” and write to someone in prison. My so called good deed became a journey of enlightenment. I became firm friends with the guy I was writing to who is in Texas. The more I found out about the penal system in the USA the more my horror grew. I had opened the door to the dark heart of America. Americans do not understand that is not the way the rest of the world operates, "we are Americans everything we do is the best so it follows that our Prisons are the best in the world." End of argument.
As you and I both know they might actually be the worst in the free world.
I have one rule that I apply diligently and that is that I can say or do nothing that can impact negatively on my friend. I check everything that I do that is new with this rule before I go ahead with it. Having said that I feel that I have to find out where the system is flawed and use it to my advantage, hence the advice I gave Bobby.
This is obviously not the right forum for this discussion, but I will get something to you by regular mail in the next few days. The mail from Africa takes forever so please be patient. Axe
My name is Joe and I just wanted to say hi and let you know that I will be transcribing your posts into typed text from the scans of your letters here on behindthebars.com.
The conversions will be exact with just a few exceptions. Those being where line breaks shift when the text is put online and other things related to posting online. However, everything else will be word for word including the spelling as you wrote it. For your handwritten posts, I will do my best to convert them accurately as well.
Stay safe and I will drop you a line when I have more of your writing transcribed.
Joe - Illinois