Back when DH was incarcerated, his nephew and I spent so much time running errands it could end up being all day. I’d gotten in the habit of eating a HUGE breakfast because no telling when we would be able to break for another meal. It might be 8 pm when we got home with [...]

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No surprise, I didn’t have much say about hiring/not hiring a lawyer. If it had been up to me, I would have prayed a lot and gone with a court-appointed attorney. However, DH was warned by his former fellow inmates not to go that route. So…we were headed for more expense and greater stress. Fortunately, [...]

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One of the hazards of publishing chapter after chapter instead of submitting a completed manuscript is there are inevitably times when it strikes the author that lots was left out. The fact is, if every single memory were recorded, it would multiply the words exponentially. I wouldn’t be able to write it all and no [...]

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During the months to follow the move, DS2 moved from school to school, trying to find his niche. It was hard on all of us but harder on him than anyone else. We’d been advised to use “tough love” but that didn’t work when he went to my mother and she chose to take him [...]

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With DH back with the pilot pool in Atlanta, his absences from home were longer and more frequent. I was beginning to find out living on the ranch wasn’t as pleasant as I’d thought at first. It was hard to cope with DS2 when DH was gone. He was full into his early teens and [...]

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DD and I went outside to see who was flying over. It was a big plane (for us) and beautiful. The colors on it were shades of brown including chocolate—unusual. It flew over, came around, flew back around and prepared to land. It was obvious it was on a final approach. As it touched down, [...]

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My mother brought us all up to respect authority and along with that came trust. When I was contacted about being “interviewed”, it didn’t occur to me that I should at least have another adult present. A lawyer to advise me would have been appropriate. The thought never crossed my mind. In my world, if [...]

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We were back home for the first time in weeks. I’d almost lost track of how long we’d been gone. Friends had been looking in on our pets and kept them fed and watered. We had an assortment of cats and an Alaskan Malamute/Doberman/Dane mix dog. He was half Malamute, a quarter Doberman and a [...]

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I was shaking in my boots not knowing what I’d find when I walked into the hospital room. Being prepared wasn’t really being prepared. DH had been through a lot and I couldn’t expect him to be in the best condition mentally. I knew his physical condition was painful but he’d live through the experience. [...]

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The trips not sanctioned by the pilot pool were more interesting than the ones that were. DH said the pilot pool flights were mostly from airport to airport and little else. The private charters went to lots of places and, more often than not, he got to do some sightseeing and maybe some shopping. One [...]

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