became an unpleasant place to live. i wanted to go do my own thing and that included partying and smoking pot and stuff like that, so i mean, i couldn t do it at home when my parents were around, so i decided to go other places. after his parents separated, madison lived with his dad and was present when his father discovered april had a new boyfriend. he like freaked out, and then he called her and was like going off on her about it. saying what? it was like i need you, like i can t live without you, stuff like that. and whenever we got back home, i had never seen my dad cry before, but he was bawling. madison was remembering all of this sitting in jail, months and months contemplating the past. you wrote people letters? yeah. apologizing in some cases for things you had done? yeah! dear, hannah, i know getting a letter from me right now. i opened it up. it was stamped like elmer county jail in like a red stamp. so like i m reading this letter and you know, like
stamped like elmer county jail in like a red stamp. so like i m reading this letter and you know, like in the letter he like apologizes for something that happened like back in 9th grade just because he wanted to like apologize to everybody he had wronged. every person i ve written i ve told the exact same thing. i m not a murderer, i don t know if you believe me or not, but i m not. i couldn t kill anybody. and then like in the end he put a bible verse so like that just showed me in the midst of this situation that you re in, you re trying to encourage other people, so it was just like really crazy to see that. i was just thinking about the light at the end of the tunnel, my favorite bible verse, jeremiah 29:11. you still thought you had a future? i knew i had a future. madison s present, though, was the four walls of a cell. time in jail did not motivate him to confess to crimes he says he didn t commit. his
then he called her and was like going off on her about it. saying what? it was like i need you, like i can t live without you, stuff like that. and whenever we got back home, i had never seen my dad cry before, but he was bawling. madison was remembering all of this sitting in jail, months and months contemplating the past. you wrote people letters? yeah. apologizing in some cases for things you had done? yeah! dear, hannah, i know getting a letter from me right now. i opened it up. it was stamped like elmer county jail in like a red stamp. so like i m reading this letter and you know, like in the letter he like apologizes for something that happened like back in 9th grade just because he wanted to like apologize to everybody he had wronged. every person i ve written i ve told the exact same thing. i m not a murderer, i don t know if you believe me or not,