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Be your friend and be there for you. i mean, i got tears coming down my eyes. because the i know what's -- what's getting ready to happen. and bobby asked me, he says, i love you. and i have never loved a woman as much as i love you. and will you be my wife. i mean, i am crying. yes. i threw my arms around him. and -- that was it. >> aun gel quit her bartending job, packed up her teenage son and 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 got to b...

And it was really nice to see her like that. >> i started feeling something for bobby. i was falling in love with him. it is an emotion that you can't control. it just happens. >> 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 vis...

Hea he eats with it. >> how are you so positive and sure you are not part of his game? >> because i am me. because i am special the i kn. i know who i am and what i am to bobby gill were. and i am not game. and i am not a trick. and i am 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. though angel is resigned to the fact that gilbert will never leave prison. that doesn't stop her from imagining a more ideal yllic ho life. >> i ...

Was carried out against another inmate in prison. during our shoot we would see his anger erupt again. >> but gilbert proved to be more than just a violent man. he also showed us a thoughtful, creative side. in the last interview we did with gilbert, he seemed resigned to his fate of spending the rest of his life, most likely alone, in the small cell. >> at this pound yint you just back and relax, and realize the best part is over with anyway. >> but five years later we would discover that gilbert's appearances on "lockup" opened up a new chapter in his life. she goes by the name of angel. pre...