hello George,First of all,receive love from me.I miss so much your loving letters lately!It's been so very long I've heard from you by letters! Between the last letter you wrote on December 12th in the old year,just ONE letter came by! Not any letter in January! No Valentine card,which you usually write me,no word till today, the 27th of February... What is happening!?I noticed the letters 302 and 303 never arrived here. The last letter was number 304; after this NOTHING.:((It says here they'll print and mail my letter on February,27th;which is today.I just wrote a message to Jessica & she answered to reach me as soon she has reached you.She thought you could call me.I explained our only communication is by letters and now not even that...I will call your dad this evening. Explaining him;did he tell you about the letters?I thought coming to Chester with the Amtrak,but this train does drive only till Carbondale.That's a big distance from your place Chester!I've to ask if your dad can pick me up at Carbondale and bring me to the hotel,Best Western and next to the Hospitality House.9 days at the hotel and just the 3 last days at the H H.The most of the period I'm there,a group of people booked at the H H.Too bad. The B W is almost 100 doll./night while the H H is only 20 doll./night!At the B W the breakfast is included and we've a outdoor swimming pool and a gym room.But swimming in April?Did you get my letters,the chess book in a yellow envelope and the Valentine card?:)I asked you the address to ask for the visiting hours,but since I never got any letters from you, I don't know who to write to?Would you tell your dad?He can tell me then at the phone.I lately hiked two days 20 kilometers.40 kms in total!With the group I hiked with in my 20ies!It was tough! I had no training anymore.Veerle asked me.I was the second oldest of a pretty large group, but the other lady had a lot of training.I was so very proud I did it, George!it was in a very high elevated protected area, more in the south of the country.In the wetlands, where streams run, with beautiful landscapes,where only birches grow because of the sour soil.I had never been there.There were plenty of wet areas,icy roads ! and spaces covered still with snow.I was dressed way too warm; with my coat with the fur, remember?My back was wet,from sweating,with backpack, climbing,pfeww8 We slept in a big modern gîte.Had a very good meal in the evening and a delicious breakfast.Veerle and me made also new friends.Scott had problems with his feet and his hips.He wasn't there. When I came home I was sour, stiff; not in my legs,(never) but at the sides of my pelvis.I slept an hour ate and took a bath.The next morning I had babysitting at Elke's and coming towards the train in the evening, almost everything was gone.I plan to buy good gear, thermo- underwear and walking sticks. Because I am fond of hiking! I will call your dad now.;)Stay healthy, stay positive and help your fellow mates.xxxlove you,Georgie
... in January!He numbers his letters and two lack!Not even a Valentine card, and that is not normal.:(He got free after 6 months of seg. On the 15th of December.Since the day of today, Feb. 27th, only one letter came!Go figure!I wrote to Jessica, his lawyer. I didn't get his answer where to write to for the visiting times.Did somebody threw his letters away!?this NEVER happened. I thought he died!:((Luckily his dad told me he had called, since he was free.If not for his dad, how would I have known he was okay?There are many lock downs too in Menard.He was there a long time ago;I've visited him there for the first day.:)Then Mary brought me.I knew I loved this man, when I met him.Actually I knew by letters, but a letter can hide a lot of things.When he came to our table I saw he was the man of his letters.I write with 2 new people on this very blog:Henry, he'll send me a photo now: 61. He also does yoga and works in the kitchen as a cook.He doesn't see his 4 children and he is innocent, in NY.Robert is an Italian/American.Life sentence. Nice person, he has one daughter.He's 41.He could see puppies at his prison. Men raise them, I heard.His mom is dying...from cancer and the dr doesn't care, he said. :(( He earns 20 doll. per month.He used to work as a volunteer with old people in the clinic.A bad person moved him.He liked his job so very much. :( I guess because of some trouble they closed the windows in his cell. I'll ask him again. It could be at his other place they still have daylight falling in? I hope so! Kelly, I wish you so much more luck.Do what you can to remain positive. As what you said. Have a big hug and xxx from Rita!
hello Kelly,Hey,head up Kelly,I know you would be a very kind person to someone you love; and I know you've high standards to live by and wishes the best for just everybody.It is a matter of time you'll find your true mate.Since you search for it, and who searches will find.:) I am sure you talked about Pam in your blog message?Real sad she took advantage from you.I truly understand your big frustration,Kelly. All this time... But here are some friends,who write you.Live with them and those who are kind with you.Believe in the worthy person you are.:)Do not be defeated, my friend.Yes another year has come on us; but always everywhere there are chances and opportunities.Wed have to see them though.I hope you've a nice person as a cellie,in April,Kelly.I've this card that says:'Hope is daring things without knowing how they'll run'. Hope is in a sense something that puts us in a positive mindset.Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring.-smile.The blog says you'll receive my message on February,27th.Tell me if so.There is a lot to tell. :)Where to start?I will fly to Ill. on April,21,to Chicago.Then taking the Amtrak till Carbondale.I thought the train would go till Chester, where George is at, but alas it's not that far.I hope his dad can pick me up at Carbondale;well his chofer,John.I'll call him tonight. A taxi from C. till Chester would cost me 150 doll. and back again 150 doll.! I am not spending this money!I booked already the flight, not the Amtrak tickets. Also the hotel twice in Chicago and twice in Carbndale. Yesterday I had to take a B.Western hotel for 9 days.Only 3 days at the Hospitality House, a B&B. A group was there at my period. :( It was only 20 doll./night, while at the BW it's almost 100 doll.!I had to call them way back in time already.Did you receive my card from IND?We had a fabulous voyage!In the weekend of 18/19of February I hiked twice 20 kilometers!With my group the Sippels.Say: Siepels. I did hike with this same group when I was in my 20ies!it was tough!I had had no training anymore. We walked in a high elevated protected area.Climbing at times between the roots of trees, mud spaces, and we had roads with ice and parts of snow.But landscapes were so bright! Streams,wetlands, and only birches as trees because the soil is sour. No other flowers or trees grow there.I was very careful to not to fall (fell once), since I wouldn't like to have my sciatic back again!Did I tell you a suitcase in the train fell on my head?!I had 18 sessions of therapy for my neck.Then suddenly appeared a sciatic pain (a pinched nerve) who was felt in my right leg.It was gone after IND., but it came back after my voyage. I still had 7 sessions to go and it was almost gone.Anyway, I am so very proud I did this!After the hike I had no sour legs, but some pain at the sides of my pelvis.Stiff, so to say. The next day I was babysitting at Elke's and coming back towards my train, almost everything was fine.:)I didn't receive not any letter from George
... dad tonight as well.This morning NO sign of his.:(I've a an urgent message fro his dad too,how to reach Chester;that's the place where I've to visit him.I thought the Amtrak arrived there,but it's in Carbondale and that's many miles from Chester.It would be 150 dollars to bring me and 150 dollars to go back by a taxi.That I'm not spending!So, that's where his dad has to pick me up.There is no other way.I've visited George there,but that's yrs ago!Then an American woman/friend drove me.Actually that must have been my very first visit to George.:)Yesterday I booked my B&B and the hotel B.Western as well.I would have preferred to stay the whole period in the Hospitality House which is only 20d/night.At BW it's almost 100d/night!On my dates there was a group;so bad luck there!I can reside there only three nights; the last ones of my staying.Still to book my Amtrak tickets(coming and going)and twice an hotel in Chicago,where I land and twice an hotel in Carbondale too.If only they don't have a lock down when I'm coming.They do have MANY in Menard!But George has more friends over there then in Hill.I wonder if he got any success with the menu he wrote to a person from the kitchen? Complaining about the repetition of the food!:(On the weekend of 18/19February I hiked twice 20 kilometers!With a group of my youth!When I was in my 20ies I already hiked with that group: the Sippels.(speak out: siepels). Veerle (say: Varle), with who I went to Indonesia asked me.it was tough!I had no training anymore!In a protected high elevated area.In the high wetlands.Very beautiful landscapes!Streams,only birches growing here and there, because of the sour underground that is.We had patches of very wet land,icy roads! and even parts of snow.I fell once; but I was taking my time to not to fall again,because my sciatic (a pinched nerve) would rise again.It appeared when the therapeutic would treat me for my neck.Because of the suitcase that fell on me in the train on October 13th.( I was so very proud I walked the 40 kilometers!Another older lady had a lot of training though.I will buy some good jacket (I was dressed way too hot!)thermo- underwear and two walking sticks.I didn't know anybody in the large group, but Veerle and me made new friends.:)I plan to do more hiking with them.We slept in a big and modern gîte and got good food!I was stiff that evening, but not my legs(never),but both sides of my pelvis.I slept an hour, ate, and took a bath after the nap.The next morning I did babysit at Elke's and when walking towards the train in the evening, it was already much better.BUT I WAS PROUD! :))Robert,take care,call you mom -say hi from me- and keep positive! No, I'm not on Facebook, but I'm sure you enjoyed the puppies!Robert,the Mexican, thought I lied when I told him George kept a kitten for 7 yrs in his cell.He said George lied.He pretended there were no innocent people in jail. And George couldn't look for his daughter, Vanessa. :(He lost his child Vanessa!xR
hi Robert, So thoughtful of you to help me with George's mail.I will write to Jessica,his lawyer to tell her that in the month of January 2 letters were missing- I can tell because he numbers his letters; 2 lack!I never received his Valentine card,which he always does!:)I will call his d
hello Robert,I was a little worried the money got lost; tell your brother next time to tell me it arrived,okay?So,I know for sure. This time you should get the message on February, 27th:TODAY.Just got yours!:)What kind of a dr your mom has!Why doesn't he care?Maybe with chemo there is still a possibility to cure her?These people are not worth to be called drs.My brother Johan is a lung specialist;he is a very thoughtful person.Listens well to patients.He is retired but still works as a MUG doctor for two clinics at our coast.They have to go to urgent cases!Always being available.He likes his job and he has of course a lot of experience!He's 66 now.Johan has a very kind cha- racter.He's my preferate brother.All his 4 grandchildren are girls.Agnes visits twice a year a few man on DR.Her friends. She visits some inmates here too.She gives massages of the feet to women there.Agnes and her husband were present with the death sentence in Texas from a black man who was innocent, many yrs ago.His lawyers did nothing. He was kept 10 yrs on DR; she wrote an article on it about his case. She promised him to care for all his brothers on DR.She does a lot for them and through her I was put in contact with George, my twin soul.:)On DR I wrote with Robert (I stopped writing him because he wrote ugly things in his letter from George) and Rubi,a Mexican. (I write in Spanish). This man suffered so very much!They don't help him with his cancer(prostate),he had no electricity from Christmas till the 2nd of January,he was bitten by a poisened spider and endured a lot of pain before they did some- thing about it.He couldn't eat as he wasn't able to go go to the toilet for 10 days!When Agnes came to see him he was very yellowish /green and had to drag a pocket of fluid at his leg,as he was cuffed with his hands on his back to the cage to see her.He suffered that much that he almost fell.That same night a nurse brought a medication to have a bowel movement.No dr came yet to him. But Agnes tried to let him see by a nurse and a friendly guard helped too. So, his lawyer by the assis- tanceof Agnes, would have a dr looked for the medical documents.He thus has an outside voice. She keeps the lawyer working at Rubi's case.He's in his sixties.Such a dear sensitive and emotional man. He drew a few drawings for me when he was a little better.If only he could be trans-ferred to a clinic!He has 4 children but nobody looks after him.He says we are his family.:)All he has is two bibles (Sp plus En) and the letters from his friends, all Belgians and Dutch people who write with him.In the past Agnes urged people to write him Birthday cards when she thought he would be executed!People kept writing.I'm the only one who writes in SP.He writes long letters in a very small writing to be able to put more on a page.;)I pray for the pen pal friends who are injails; also for your mom, Robert.Tell her next time.-smile Give her a((warm))kiss from me.What is again her age&her name?x Rita
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When I came home I was sour, stiff; not in my legs,(never) but at the sides of my pelvis.I slept an hour ate and took a bath.The next morning I had babysitting at Elke's and coming towards the train in the evening, almost everything was gone.I plan to buy good gear, thermo- underwear and walking sticks. Because I am fond of hiking!
I will call your dad now.;)Stay healthy, stay positive and help your fellow mates.xxxlove you,Georgie
Kelly, I wish you so much more luck.Do what you can to remain positive. As what you said. Have a big hug and xxx from Rita!
I am sure you talked about Pam in your blog message?Real sad she took advantage from you.I truly understand your big frustration,Kelly. All this time... But here are some friends,who write you.Live with them and those who are kind with you.Believe in the worthy person you are.:)Do not be defeated, my friend.Yes another year has come on us; but always everywhere there are chances and opportunities.Wed have to see them though.I hope you've a nice person as a cellie,in April,Kelly.I've this card that says:'Hope is daring things without knowing how they'll run'. Hope is in a sense something that puts us in a positive mindset.Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring.-smile.The blog says you'll receive my message on February,27th.Tell me if so.There is a lot to tell. :)Where to start?I will fly to Ill. on April,21,to Chicago.Then taking the Amtrak till Carbondale.I thought the train would go till Chester, where George is at, but alas it's not that far.I hope his dad can pick me up at Carbondale;well his chofer,John.I'll call him tonight. A taxi from C. till Chester would cost me 150 doll. and back again 150 doll.! I am not spending this money!I booked already the flight, not the Amtrak tickets. Also the hotel twice in Chicago and twice in Carbndale. Yesterday I had to take a B.Western hotel for 9 days.Only 3 days at the Hospitality House, a B&B. A group was there at my period. :( It was only 20 doll./night, while at the BW it's almost 100 doll.!I had to call them way back in time already.Did you receive my card from IND?We had a fabulous voyage!In the weekend of 18/19of February I hiked twice 20 kilometers!With my group the Sippels.Say: Siepels. I did hike with this same group when I was in my 20ies!it was tough!I had had no training anymore. We walked in a high elevated protected area.Climbing at times between the roots of trees, mud spaces, and we had roads with ice and parts of snow.But landscapes were so bright! Streams,wetlands, and only birches as trees because the soil is sour. No other flowers or trees grow there.I was very careful to not to fall (fell once), since I wouldn't like to have my sciatic back again!Did I tell you a suitcase in the train fell on my head?!I had 18 sessions of therapy for my neck.Then suddenly appeared a sciatic pain (a pinched nerve) who was felt in my right leg.It was gone after IND., but it came back after my voyage. I still had 7 sessions to go and it was almost gone.Anyway, I am so very proud I did this!After the hike I had no sour legs, but some pain at the sides of my pelvis.Stiff, so to say. The next day I was babysitting at Elke's and coming back towards my train, almost everything was fine.:)I didn't receive not any letter from George
racter.He's my preferate brother.All his 4 grandchildren are girls.Agnes visits twice a year a few man on DR.Her friends. She visits some inmates here too.She gives massages of the feet to women there.Agnes and her husband were present with the death sentence in Texas from a black man who was innocent, many yrs ago.His lawyers did nothing. He was kept 10 yrs on DR; she wrote an article on it about his case. She promised him to care for all his brothers on DR.She does a lot for them and through her I was put in contact with George, my twin soul.:)On DR I wrote with Robert (I stopped writing him because he wrote ugly things in his letter from George) and Rubi,a Mexican. (I write in Spanish). This man suffered so very much!They don't help him with his cancer(prostate),he had no electricity from Christmas till the 2nd of January,he was bitten by a poisened spider and endured a lot of pain before they did some- thing about it.He couldn't eat as he wasn't able to go go to the toilet for 10 days!When Agnes came to see him he was very yellowish /green and had to drag a pocket of fluid at his leg,as he was cuffed with his hands on his back to the cage to see her.He suffered that much that he almost fell.That same night a nurse brought a medication to have a bowel movement.No dr came yet to him. But Agnes tried to let him see by a nurse and a friendly guard helped too. So, his lawyer by the assis- tanceof Agnes, would have a dr looked for the medical documents.He thus has an outside voice. She keeps the lawyer working at Rubi's case.He's in his sixties.Such a dear sensitive and emotional man. He drew a few drawings for me when he was a little better.If only he could be trans-ferred to a clinic!He has 4 children but nobody looks after him.He says we are his family.:)All he has is two bibles (Sp plus En) and the letters from his friends, all Belgians and Dutch people who write with him.In the past Agnes urged people to write him Birthday cards when she thought he would be executed!People kept writing.I'm the only one who writes in SP.He writes long letters in a very small writing to be able to put more on a page.;)I pray for the pen pal friends who are injails; also for your mom, Robert.Tell her next time.-smile Give her a((warm))kiss from me.What is again her age&her name?x Rita
Glad that your getting the go fund me page set up, I hope it works out good for you, sorry that I wasn't able to help facilitate it, had I been contacted.....
Gypsy