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17 July ‘06
Monday

Russ;

“Hip hop body rock, let me hear your aggie drop.�
“One, two, three and a four step.�
“This ain’t nothin’ but physical fitness.�
“Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, paso.�
“Body Rock and aggie drop, handle your business.�

If you saw the movie “Oh Brother Where Art Thou� remember the guys when they’re out in the cotton field workin’? That’s similar to us when we’re “hittin’ on it.� We’re all lined up facing the same way swinging our aggies in time, hitting the ground at the same time. Stepping at the same time. Three hits and on the fourth we take a step.

Yes, I’m back in the fields after changing units. I’m 40 miles from Houston. I left Stepenson on the 6th and got here on the 7th...�

This is the last letter from a friend of mine whom I correspond with. (I’ve got to write him back.) He’s in TDC for a sexual charge doin’ 20. Sure missed up his life.

I send him religious articles and books (from a book store) and we do get into some really good religious debates in letter form. Praise the LORD above that he’s found Christ.

CM goes on to say in this letter: “Stephenson was a laid back farm but this place is even more so. The Asst. Warden told me the day I got here that they try to run a very laid back farm. “You screw up, you get shipped.� I’ve seen things here that would send the admin at Stephenson into hysterics…� then he goes on to complain about the shower facilities in a unit that “was built five to ten year either side of 1933.�

The normal person on the street has no idea of what it’s really like in prison! I didn’t, not until I went down on a trip with our church once. That’s when I met some and heard some of their stories. I’ll keep writing to CM, because we’ve become friends and he says that everyone else deserted him except his mother. He even added my wife and myself to his visitors list.

I just had to share this.

Russ