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What I Wish I Could
Written by Gregory Dean   
Thursday, 16 August 2007

I was drug addict for nine years. Then I came to prison. The two times in my life I almost died.

I have been free for thirteen years. Last night my wife found your web site. She cried reading the things you wrote. I cried for the first time since I have been free.

I told her that you were my life. That for all the years I had spent there and all the years I had been with her, I wish I had the words you use to describe. So I can help her to understand.

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They Have Names
Written by Marc Ching   
Tuesday, 28 November 2006
November 28th, 2007 3:33pm

It’s this kind of shit that makes me pissed. The way they keep f**king with me. The way they keep trying to get under my skin. Pushing me to do things that would betray the bitterness of my tears. That would denigrate, not only who I have become but also all the work that we have put into. Because we've come too far and suffered too long to let their actions be the cause to reactions. We've come too far, been strong for too long . . . for too many years.

Because they never let me forget. The line between them and us. The evident reality that demarcates our world into what it is. They never let me forget. That emptiness that fills us with so much resentment. They are the reason why I cringe at night. Why I bite my tongue till it bleeds. They are the enemy. The one who seeks to harm us with their words. Wailing at us with fists that have bruised more then just our skins.

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San Quentin Prison
Written by Editor   
Sunday, 17 July 2005
Prisoner's Reform Organizational Partnership
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