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  JoRo10 (08/01/09)

  My prayers are with you my dear. Just remember, if God had a refrigerator, he would have a fridge magnet of you on it...
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  kathleen410 (03/19/09)

  Thank you.
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  BAB09 (03/02/09)

  I am praying for you and your family and that your son gets his life back.
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  page (02/16/09)

  Hope you get to feel better soon.
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  tiredtiredtired (12/26/08)

  Hi I am sorry I haven't kept in touch much so much has happened in the last month. Just wanted you to know I was thinking of you. Love Rhea
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  EthelM (12/10/08)

  I hope you are well.
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  GeorgiaM (11/19/08)

  Hi Jacki, I'm crossing my fingers that they offer him a "good deal" so it doesn't go to trial. My husband really doesn't want to have to court, etc. It was tramatic enough for us to have to go to and testify at the Grand Jury Hearing. The DA was very mean to me in my opinion. So are you saying that on Dec. 8th is his sentencing date? Has anyone brought up the subject of Character Letters to you? I have about 11 Character Letters from a couple of his friends, from our friends, one of his bosses, a couple of people that have worked for my son when he was a Valet Supervisor at the Aladdin (now called Planet Hollywood). I'm trying to get more of his former bosses and employees to send me more letters. We'll give those letters to the Public Defender, a copy for the Judge (and if it would help and if the DA would except it - one to him too). They would get those letters before the "sentencing date" so that people could see how he was before the drugs got a hold on him and that his divorce is what started his downword spiral into drugs. I'm trying anything I can to do what I think will help Steven out in the long run. Because your son is younger it may be a little more difficult to find the right people to do the Character Letters. Maybe some of his "good" High School friends who knew him before the drugs could write some nice things about him that could help him out. I'm included his newest reflection called "In the End....." Got to go now. Take Care. Love,Georgia P.S. Have I told you before that it says that you were a member to DS since March 25th and that is my birthday? Plus is your astrolgy sign - Libra? My best friend, Laurie, is a Libra and her birthday is Oct. 21st. In The End…….. Written by Steven M.,11/14/08 Those last precious moments of your life, what do you truly reflect on? To me, those are the real special moments that define your life. Those are the moments that you should strive for. Being incarcerated has given me a similar glimpse at my life. You find yourself looking back at those great times and asking yourself what is memorable and important in your life? My drug addiction was not only a pivotal factor in my actions that has led me here to this painful experience of incarceration, but also looking back to the time of my addiction, I can find no special memories. I can find no special moments. It was all just a haze of stress and daily struggles. It is scary how the mind can be twisted, manipulated, and flipped upside down by drugs. You find yourself doing things you never imagined doing, going to places you never imagined going, and surrounding yourself with people you never imagined associating with. My addiction turned me from a caring, helpful, responsible person to a virtual two-year-old with not a care in the world except for my own personal needs. One moment I am working a respectable job, helping people emotionally and financially and the next moment I am asking those same people for the money I loaned them (which they truly needed) so that I can throw it away on drugs (which at the time, I felt I needed). Today I find myself wanting more than anything to prove myself to the world. That I am not a lost cause! That I can battle back from this all time low in my life. I realize now how important time can be and I refuse to waste another minute of my time on drugs. Drugs only provide a false reality and steer you away from the real special moments that define your life. For now I realize there is virtually no limit to the greatness I can achieve, and that realization is what motivates me and inspires me to do great things. In the last moments of my life, I will have an endless amount of precious memories of happiness and triumphs. I will show the skeptics that I am not the horrible person that drugs had made me.
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  GeorgiaM (11/17/08)

  Hi Jacki, Just wanted to check on you and see how you're doing. I hope things are going well for you. My husband and I were given supoena's last Thurday for Steven's upcoming trial on Dec. 15th (right before Xmas - Yuck!) I'm still hoping that the DA will give Steven a "deal" so it doesn't go to trial - we'll see what happens. I'm am sending you another one of Steven's Reflection and it's called "Reality of Incarceration" - Did I send you the reflection called, "Freedom"? If I didn't let me know and I'll send it to you too. Reality of Incarceration By Steven Morales, written Nov. 2008 I can vividly recall a scene in the movie XXX (triple X) where Samuel L. Jackson, the law enforcement officer, threatens Vin Diesel, the troublemaker, with the following statement: Samuel L. Jackson asks, “Have you ever seen lions at the zoo? Two hundred pounds of fury, locked in a box. But after awhile, their eyes glaze over, they no longer remember the thrill of the hunt.” This is one of my biggest fears, becoming “institutionalized,” losing touch with the outside world, losing hope for a happy, successful future. Going to jail, an experience that can not be truly comprehended until experienced. I considered myself a pretty educated person until I came to jail. The one thing I didn’t and couldn’t understand, is the power of the mind, and it truly is a powerful thing. In here, I have experienced that the lack of a strong mind can lead to serious consequences. I have quickly noticed how many inmates need medication because the stress and harsh reality of incarceration is just too much for them to handle. The hardest thing for me is not the waiting for time to pass because I have found that an easy fix for this is to stay busy. The real trick is to not stay busy doing trivial activities but use your time productively. I find that what keeps me sane is to educate myself. If I am here, in jail, with all of this time on my hands, I might as well make the best of it. Since I am missing out on life, I spend my time preparing for my eventual release. That way my studies in business, communication, finance, and foreign language will propel me to success and ensure that I make up for lost time. Education, is what keeps me going. Education is what keeps me sane. The hardest thing for me to deal with psychologically is knowing all of the wonderful things that I am missing out on. I think that in this aspect, I have a much bigger challenge overcoming this anxiety than most inmates do. Because unlike most inmates, I was blessed with the opportunity to fish in Cabo, relax in Cancun, take a cruise to the Bahamas, walk the beaches of Maui, shop in Laguna Beach, and experience Miami. I have dined in the finest restaurants, stayed in top hotels, and owned fancy cars and trucks. I have experienced the VIP life and have befriended many successful and famous people. I owned my own house, cars, and boat. I know all of the wonderful things life has to offer and I never realized how blessed I truly was. It is a helpless feeling that is indescribable, being incarcerated. When that cell door closes behind you and you want nothing more than to just go home, but you can’t! Your fate is now in someone else’s hands and you know, especially in my case that you are missing out. With each passing day, you are truly losing a day of your life. A day without the chance to be successful, make others proud, and to experience all of life’s wonderful freedoms. What hurt me the most was, because of my poor choices, I was unable to attend my Grandfather’s Memorial. A chance to honor a Great Man and collectively appreciate with friends and family how he made the world, our world, a better place. That was a once in a lifetime experience that I will never regain. To this day, it upsets me to think about the disappointment my Grandfather must feel as he looks down from above. The other obstacle that is very hard to deal with is the understanding of the wrong I have done and the pain I have caused the victims of the crime I committed, as well as my friends and family. What I have put them through is inexcusable and I feel helpless because I know that my actions can never be erased. The strain I have placed on my mother and father’s relationship is intense. You can never really gauge the true damage of disappointment and grief, but I know that the stress I have placed on them has taken days, months, or even years off of their lives. Jail can play a real mind game on you. It is a constant struggle to keep control of your emotions and to keep from falling into hopelessness. A positive outlook is the most valuable tool you have. You have to know and believe that you may be a caged tiger, but one day you will be free! One day you will have the opportunity to right all of your wrongs. The key to overcoming it all is HOPE and if you have it and believe in it, it can never be taken away.
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  GeorgiaM (10/28/08)

  Hello Jacki, I talked to Steven last night and was telling him about the Daily Strength website and about the different friends I've met on this site, etc. I asked him how he would feel about writing to your son and he said that if I really wanted him to that he would but really he'd rather write to a possible Female Pen Pal. So I guess he's saying that he wasn't really that excited about writing to someone he didn't know that well - plus Steven is basically a "shy guy" but I thought he was coming out of that now. I'll wait a couple of weeks to see if he brings up the subject of me asking him if he wanted to write to your son. In other words I don't want to push him. I know from talking to former cellmates of Stevens that he's helped them and they have helped Steven in listening to each other's stories, etc. I would be willing to write to your son if you think he would like that. I'm old enough to be his grandmother (I'm 57) but sometimes listening to someone else might help him in some way. Just let me know what you think. Have A Good Day. Love, Georgia.

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