Gypsy Rose Blanchard

I got my GED while I was in prison.

I, I won't say that it's enjoy.

I will say it's live in a, in a new way.

It was enjoyment in a new way because, yeah, there was enjoyment.

But at the same time, the sacrifice is the time that I missed from my family that wanted a relationship with me.

That's eight and a half years of me watching my sister grow up, go to prom, my brother get married, all these life moments that now I cannot join with them in.

That I'm having to watch from afar.

That is the punishment.

Okay.

Prison itself, I had a routine.

I had a job.

I didn't so much mind living there.

If I had no family to go home to, prison probably wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world.

I'm still navigating that to this day.

But I will say I was blessed to have two really good friends that I'm still friends with to this day.

They are both currently still locked up.

But there was never a time where I felt taken advantage of by them.

And for me, that's big.

Well, I had received a letter from a man that's local, like a Louisiana-born native.

So I was like, oh, it's someone from my neck of the woods, a Louisiana Cajun boy.