your mom. 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,
while stokes tries to secure a place with the irish mob, he hopes it won t cost him another relationship that is considerably closer to his heart. i miss my daughters. i got four little girls. i should be a father to them, but when i m in here, i can t. with his frequent prison stays stokes rarely sees his girls. the one he spent the most time with is 7-year-old emilee. you should check this out. my daughter drew that for me on the envelopes. i love her little voice, she s awesome. she s definitely the only person that s going to love me no matter what. irish mob, anybody, they ll turn on me. i know that. little girl won t. she ll be there till i die. she drew that for me. stokes fondest memories are of watching emilee when her mother was at work. all evening i would sit there
gang he hopes will provide him protection. irish people eat better than 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 tracked 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 time, stokes and several other inmates can take a break from jail in order to be parents.
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. erik olson was recently assaulted by two other inmates
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 her 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 love you with all my heart. muah. bunches. i ll mail that to my dter