She finally got out of prison when I was 5. Shortly after that, they got divorced. There was no custody battle, because the school by my dad’s house was much better for me than the one in her neighborhood..She got an apartment and a dog, then started dating new people. I was allowed visitation with her twice a week and every other weekend.
I remembered seeing my mother in prison during visitation days and we would sneak in little hair clips and stuff for her in my hair. There was a huge play area for the other kids there and we got a picture together every time.
After my grandma had a stroke, I went through one of her drawers that hasn’t been touched in decades. I found old notebooks from my mother when she was in prison.
My parents were huge drug addicts before I was born. They got caught and they both had charges put on them, but my mom took my dads sentence for him since I was 1 at the time. My dad got put on rehab and had to attend those and come back negative on all his tests while my grandma took care of me for the most part.
I remembered seeing my mother in prison during visitation days and we would sneak in little hair clips and stuff for her in my hair. There was a huge play area for the other kids there and we got a picture together every time.