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"I was the girl on top of the bar with money being put on me, not remembering any of it the next morning."
Carrie prostituted herself for drugs. As a registered nurse, educated and articulate, she never expected to go so low.
"I started my speech to the parole board by stating; ‘I’m guilty of murder too, and the father of the person I killed forgave me and welcomed me into his family. So, who am I to not extend that same forgiveness to her?"
"Suddenly I felt the real power and presence of God. It was like fire and electricity shooting through my body."
The next thing I remember was a knock on my windshield and blue lights when I woke up in my rear view mirror.
“You’re going to end up like your father, a bum on the street, a loser, an alcoholic.” As a kid, growing up hearing those things hurt me. I thought, “Man, after everything I do for you, this is how you love me.”
I had loaded the rifle and put it on the coffee table. I had a fishing line tied to it.
We decide to go out with our friends that night, but end up at the same party. She’s talking with another guy that I couldn’t stand.
The next morning I woke up my wife, and said, “We’re going to church.” She laughed and said, “Is there a wedding? Did somebody die?”, because we hadn’t been to church in years.
By the time I was thirty I had experienced five failed marriages. I felt like I could do nothing right;