or if you want to sing them a song or say a prayer or whatever 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.
you guys need to get a book and, you know, there s a bunch of books you can choose from over there. so just go and look around and see what you can find. when you get a book, let me know and i ll tell you what to do next. okay. all right? i ll get you some coffee, cream and sugar. we have quite a waiting list on the male population to get in here to read to their children. they re very eager. they re always asking when is story time next? am i on the list for story time? how do i go to story time? where do i get an application? how do you think emilee will feel about that book? that s a good book. i liked the story when i was a kid. you haven t done this before. no. okay. whenever you re ready, just push the red button and there s about an eight to ten-second delay so wait a few seconds before you start speaking. there s the mike. you re welcome to send your kids a personal message. if you want to say, hey, hope things are good, be good for your mom.
i don t want her to think that i just disappeared and i m not there and just come back after all these years and try to be a part of her life. i d like to actually try to be a part of it even though i m gone. i wrote, this book belongs to, then i wrote emilee, from daddy. i love you with all my heart, baby. i miss you and i m thinking of you every single day. you re my angel. mwah. and i spelled it m-u-a-h. that s how you spell muah. i m going to read you a story, it s called hansel and gretel. i love you. pretty sweet, huh? gretel and her brother so, how does that make you feel? i just feel very happy. sounds good. i think she s going to like that. she ll get this big package in the mail and she ll probably be excited about that, too. i know her mom told me she likes it when she gets letters from
there is not enough food, screamed the stepmother. we must take the children to i really like this program. i m glad that i got signed up for it. that night hansel sneaked outside. when he came back, his pockets were filled with rocks. just keep that bond with her. i don t want to get out and her be like, you weren t there. a lot of kids you ll hear them say that. you weren t there for me. i want her to know that i love her and i m here. gretel and hansel lived in comfort and joy with their father. and every now and then, gretel ventured back to the gingerbread cottage for dessert. all right, that s the story of hansel and gretel, emilee. i love you. you re the most beautiful girl in the world and you re very special and i miss you more than the desert misses rain. mwah!
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.