corrections denied a request to interview gilbert, but angel told us the story of how she first became involved with gilbert shortly after seeing him on lockup. angel had initially contacted another holman inmate featured on the series, sherman moore, who held the job of prison barber. it was moore who acted as match-maker. wrote to sherman and developed a friendship with sherman. it s like you pulled a flattop fade out of your head? is that what you want? but i also saw the segment on bobby and i inquired about bobby, you know, what kind of a person is he? i was telling them all about me drinking that bottle of scope up in west jefferson. sherman encouraged me to write to him. he s like, write him, angel. he said you might hit it off. he says you and her personalitywise are very similar. so i wrote bobby a letter because i just saw something more than what was shown.
i can t financially support you. all i can do is love you and be your friend and be there for you. i mean, i got tears coming down my eyes because i know what s getting ready to happen. and bobby asked me, he says, i love you and i ve never loved a woman as much as i love you. and will you be my wife? i mean, i m crying, oh, yes! and i threw my arms around him, and that was it. angel quit her bartending job, packed up her teenage son and her life in illinois and moved to a small town in alabama where she would only be an hour s drive from the prison. she got a job as a bartender and built her life around visits to gilbert. you ve got to be strong for it because it s not all fun and games. our visits, we laugh and just enjoy each other s time. but when they say visits are now over, you re leaving someone that you love there.
going to bust out of here, hunt you down, harass you at work and make obscene phone calls to you? thank you for the picture, angel, very nice. love that hair. you ve got to be at least 7 feet tall, talk about kicking my ass, ha ha. don t be a stranger, angel. take care of yourself. with a smile, bobby g. when angel began her correspondence with gilbert, she was living in joliet, illinois. her son, niko, was only 15 at the time. at first, i was very worried about her emotional safety, because i wasn t sure how it would end up. but what had begun as just a pen pal relationship quickly became something more serious. on a sunday evening at 8:00 at night, my son brought me the phone, and he said there s a collect call on there, and i thought perhaps it was from sherman, and it was him. it was bobby. and i ve communicated with him every day since. my mom, she was glowing, she was happy, and it was really
i know who i am and what i am to bobby gilbert, and i m not game and i m not a trick and i m not something to hustle, unlike the rest of these people out there. gilbert told us he is looking forward to the wedding but must be released from ad seg before the couple can be granted permission to be married. and even though angel has resigned to the fact that gilbert will never leave prison, that doesn t stop her from imagining a more idyllic home life. i daydream about simple things, what it would be like just to make bobby a breakfast plate and bring it to him or tell him, get it yourself, i ain t your maid. i love everything about him. i love his temperament, i love
i didn t set out for it to happen. it just did. the alabama department of corrections denied a request to interview gilbert, but angel told us the story of how she first became involved with gilbert shortly after seeing him on lockup. angel had initially contacted another holman inmate featured on the series, sherman moore, who held the job of prison barber. it was moore who acted as match-maker. wrote to sherman and developed a friendship with sherman. it s like you pulled a flattop fade out of your head? is that what you want? but i also saw the segment on bobby and i inquired about bobby, you know, what kind of a person is he? i was telling them all about me drinking that bottle of scope