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. and he s just written 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
this 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 and you re the most beautiful girl in the world and
everybody else. proving irish heritage, however, is not a requirement for membership. my mom has red hair and i figured people with red hair usually are from ireland, right? irish people. i don t know where my family is from. i ve never checked my family tree. what is this? mayonnaise. what the we never get mayonnaise. [ bleep ]. i don t trust it. i know. i don t trust it. but stokes knows for long-term happiness he will need more than his gang. my daughter will only be 11 or 12 years old when i get out. the oldest one. i might still be able to be a dad. but i d have to stop all this stuff. i can t be a gang member and a dad at the same time. stokes eldest daughter is 7-year-old emilee. thanks to a program called story
and that gets you emotional? yeah. i cry every time i do it. i can t write her without crying. 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.
you more than the desert misses rain. muah! 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 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. muah. and i spelled it m-u-a-h. going to read you a story 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.