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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 buil...

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 ...

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 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 inquir...

Nice to see her like that. >> i started feeling something for bobby. i was falling in love with him, and it's an emotion that you can't control. it just happens. >> and after four months of calls and letters, angel decided to make the 700-mile trip from illinois to alabama, and she visited bobby for the first time. >> it was only three hours, and it was very special. he was sitting next to me, and i could see bobby out of the corner of my eye just grinning and staring at me. it was really cute. >> over the next few months, angel made the trip two more times, and on her third visit, gilbert had...