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So oftentimes when I am driving up to the correctional facility to teach them,
I am tired or I’m stressed from work,
but once I get there and I see the women again,
I am just full of energy again, and it feels so good and so right
to be there sharing what I am learning,
and after class they always come up to me and say how much they appreciate it,
and it’s heartbreaking sometimes because they often ask me,
“Are you going to come back? Are you going to come back?”
and I say, "I hope so..."
It’s just that often people forget about them
and it’s difficult to make a bond with someone
and then not see them again in that prison environment,
and I think that based on what they’ve told me,
they really appreciate people coming in from the outside
because we... we don’t know their story
so there’s no judgment:
we’re just dealing with them one to one as another human.
There’s no judgment, and I think they really appreciate that.