A 41-year-old man incarcerated since age 12 describes being released after 35 days with no life skills, three infants to care for, and a partner he abandoned in panic. Now he's trying to prove he's changed, carrying the weight of that regret.
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When I first met her, when we got out, I didn't know. You know what I'm saying? I didn't know everything that I was walking into. Okay, I'm 41. I've been in prison and locked up doing time for a long time. Yeah. How many years? I've been locked up since I was 12. Oh. You hear me? So when I got grown, I was out periodically for no longer than 35 days at a time. Okay. So that means it was a lot I didn't know. I didn't know how to cook. I didn't know how to clean. And I ain't know how to wash clothes. And I sure didn't know how to take care of 3 babies. So by then, I panicked, I got cold feet, you know what I'm saying, or whatever, and I felt like it was too much for me. I left. I did, and I was wrong, and I regret that to this day. That's why I'm here, 'cause I wanna prove to you that I'm not living like that no more.