The Long Goodbye Blog

This profile was one of the saddest things I've ever read. I am honestly speechless. I can't even imagine being a mother and only seeing your child for 5 hours on one day through out many months. They don't get to be there It was sweet how the mothers got dressed up for their families to come visit them and how excited they were to recieve the small gifts. But it was almost too hard to read why Stephanie and Jennifer were in there. They barely did anything except for wait in the car or make a few phone calls and now they were paying for it with years of their lives in jail waiting and thinking why am I here? They did not sell the drugs, they honestly didn't even know that drugs were involved in their situations yet they were punished with time in jail away from their young children. Stephanie's story was the most heartbreaking because her son was being made fun of in school for her being in jail. He was angry at her and didn't even act like he was happy to see her. That was really sad and when he punched her in the face my heart was hurting for her. I can't even believe how hard that must of been for her to only see her son for a little bit and for him to treat her that way. My heart is breaking for her. This was a really sad reading but the author, Amanda Coyne did a good job to lighten up the depressing situation with bits of humor. The pockets of change and vending machine gathering made it lighter and also how Jennifer was running around with her son and they were laughing together was touching. Another humorous part of the profile was when Jennnifer's 5 year old son was saying he wanted to be a bad guy like his Mommy and do something really bad so he could go to jail with her. Anyway if the story was all sad and depressed jail talk about how the mothers could not be with their children the profile would feel dark and too sad. That's why the author put the bits of humor in and it makes the story feel better and its easier to take in and read. Well thats what I think and I really enjoyed this profile and I thought it was a great example of a profile.