Kirk Fronze Szawronski and Isaac Tillman are two names you'll recognize if you're familiar with my Federal Criminal Case...the same one that netted me this ridiculous 213 year sentence. Once upon a time these two guys were friends of mine...or so I thought...until we got caught. We spent time with eachother's families and promised to always be there for one another...especially for the kids. They each had a little one at home and I occassionally had to remind them of their familial obligations when they'd been out running the streets for too long. I shouldn't have been as surprised as I was when I learned that they were both working with the Feds...the story was that they were simply doing it for their "kids sake" and never mind the "get out of jail free card" tucked into each of their back pockets.All these years later I'm neither mad nor bitter at either of those men...but I do think of them occassionally and wonder how thier kids turned out. They should both be at least 10 years old by now and I recall that being a very pivotal point in my life. I had just relocated from Racine, WI to Marlton, NJ with my Mom and the kids in my 4th grade class weren't exactly "welcoming" to the new kid with the funny accent. It was a tough year with my teachers since I was constantly being reprimanded for talking in class...and eventually I was kicked out of our 1 day a week art class with Mrs. Lieb who prophesied that I would end up in prison one day...What the hell could she have possibly seen in a 10 year old child who was struggling to fit in that would make her say such a thing? These are the things that come to mind when I remember my youth.

I sincerely hope that Szawronski and Tillman got their shit together and decided to become genuine "family men"...or what was it all for??? I can live the rest of my life in here in peace if I know that both of them at least tried to make a difference in their kids lives...2 for the price of one...I can live with that.