and he s just written her a letter to tell her about story time. emilee, what s up, baby girl? i love you so much. daddy misses you so much. bunches. how is mommy doing? i heard you were doing great in school and that you re the smartest kid in your class. i m so proud of you. i feel very happy when i know you re doing so well. i signed up for a class today so i can read stories on tape and send them to you so you can hear me. i hope that you will like it. are you being a good big sister and helping mommy with your baby brothers? i bet you re the best big sister in the whole world. and you re the most beautiful girl in the world and nothing can ever change that. you re special, baby girl. i love you with all my heart. muah. bunches. i ll mail that to my daughter tomorrow morning. and that gets you emotional? yeah. i cry every time i do it. i can t write her without crying. while stokes feels emotions
despite their circumstances, despite the bad choices that they ve made to come here, they still want to stay connected to their kids and, you know, want to show their kids that they re doing something positive. let s go! meeks and stokes, come here! lester stokes has just signed up for story time. stokes. stokes? this is story time request or application. so, do you have more than one child? i have four. are they all at the same house? no? okay. she s got some extras for you. you have to fill out one for each household. all right, thank you. okay? you re welcome. stokes has served two prior prison terms and will soon return to serve six years for false impersonation. he has four daughters by three women. but the first story he records will be for the daughter he s closest to. 7-year-old emilee.
while stokes feels emotions in jail, especially when it comes to emilee, he s cautious to hide them from other inmates. any kind of love or tears is pointed out as a weakness in here. it s frowned upon. definitely not going to go out and sit in the middle of the pod and write a letter and cry my eyes out in front of 105 guys. that s not going to happen. i ll go in my cell, shut the door, keep that to myself. people prey on that in this environment. people get extorted and people get robbed and people get beat up and jumped and i m not one of those people. i refuse to be like that. other inmates typically preyed upon in jail are those accused or convicted of sex crimes. erik olson was recently assaulted by two other inmates who thought he had raped a 12-year-old girl. but that wasn t the case. hello.
hopes it won t cost him another relationship that is considerably closer to his heart. i miss my daughters. i got four little girls. i should be a father to them, but when i m in here, i can t. with his frequent prison stays stokes rarely sees his girls. the one he spent the most time with is 7-year-old emilee. you should check this out. my daughter drew that for me on the envelopes. i love her little voice, she s awesome. she s definitely the only person that s going to love me no matter what. irish mob, anybody, they ll turn on me. i know that. little girl won t. she ll be there till i die. she drew that for me. stokes fondest memories are of watching emilee when her mother was at work. all evening i would sit there and play princess, little tea cup parties, watch dora. i guess my favorite thing i ve
your little routine is with your kids, you re welcome to do that. this is your personal message to them. sweet. all right? just whenever you re ready. pretty nervous. what do i say? i don t want to mess up. like i want her to like what i say. i don t want to say anything stupid. i want to try. emilee, daddy loves you, baby. i can t wait to see you again. hope you re doing good for mommy and i m going to read you a story. it s called hansel and gretel. i love you. gretel and her brother, hansel, lived near a great forest. one night gretel awoke to voices. there is not enough food,