Karah

Well, in fact, he didn't know how to communicate with us.

I just remembered he smiled a lot.

I remember he was very calm.

He was just very, very calm and just kind of stayed to himself.

We had went to Walmart, this for example of how, just as an example of how people do in fact get cell shock and they can't come out of it.

We had went to Walmart one time and he like did not shop with us.

He had kept all his things separate from us and didn't really just like even put his things in the same cart with us.

And it's just little things like that.

Like I remember just looking and like,

yes you are you i i don't know how he was able to keep like such a straight faced or like such a persona like a strong this isn't because i would always ask him and he would call like are you sad like are you scared is there bad guys there like what you tell me what prison's like and my dad never really elaborated on it

He never really got much into detail with it.

And I think that was just because he was sheltering me in a sense.

He was sheltering me in a way that I didn't quite understand.

So growing, going back to my dad getting out of prison.

And mind you, I'm going to back up from when I was a little girl.

I hated daddy-daughter dances.

I don't know why I did, but I just remember they would decorate the school gyms.

And it was always so cute.

They just made it so exciting.

And I remember all of my friends sitting around and talking about the dresses they were going to wear and the shoes they were going to wear and just...