![]() See what a subscription to Adobe Acrobat DC can do for you-enhanced with premium features in the Acrobat Reader mobile app and Adobe Document Cloud services.Īcrobat DC subscription gives you so much more than the latest desktop software. Energy, Climate Action & Sustainability.Because being falsely imprisoned, sometimes it hardens that heart to where you don't want to show a sign of weakness. Wasn't bad tears, it was good tears, because I knew I still had a heart. ![]() And I used to hang a sheet up, and the sheet would cover my whole cell, and I just used to go in my cell and have a big cry about it. And it made you want to be a part of that.Īnd seeing it on TV, I'mma tell you, I didn't want people to see me cry or shed a tear, but every now and then that happened. They dress nice in red and white and all these pretty Christmas colors. You see the soap opera people, they got the big Christmas trees. You miss the brothers going outside shooting basketball in the backyard. You miss the sisters fighting over the bathroom. The soap operas really, it resonated a lot about missing home, missing the arguing you heard your mom and dad have every now and then. But we didn't care about that - because they knew the guy that was watching the soap opera probably can kick half of the cellblock he lived on's butt.įandoms: Identities Shaped By The Things We Love Babies And Baseball: A Dad Plants The Seeds For A Shared Love Of The Game Watching these love stories in a day room full of guys, you know they made the snide remarks of, "it's pretty much for women and females" or whatever the case may be. We walked down the hallway, they shouting, "Hey - did you see 'The Dope' yesterday?". We called it "The Dope" - because it was addictive. We didn't call it General Hospital no more. It's like all eyes - don't nobody want to blink, because if you feel like if you blink, you gonna miss something. These were some of the hardest-core fighting guys - but when that soap opera came on, you can hear a pin drop on cotton. We had a guy named T-Bone, and we had Slim 50. One of them named Baby Shaq, 'cause he was a big guy like Shaquille O'Neal. ![]() I got a crew of men that, in the world of society, was killers. Interviews A Lifetime Of Finding Peace, Purpose And Voice In The Pages Of Comics And they was like, "Hey dude, this is the soap opera side of the day room, where people watch soap opera" - and I was like, "oh, this is the side that I need to be on." The first time I watched the soap opera in prison, I walked to the day room, and they was watching soap opera. This has been lightly edited for clarity.įour things kept me out of trouble: working in the kitchen, going to the gym, reading three books per week and - the most important thing - was the soap opera. He learned to cope in prison, but he knew he had to stay out of trouble, because if his innocence was proved, he wanted to be able to walk free.Īs part of Morning Edition 's exploration of fandoms, Scott, 47, describes, in his own words, how his passion for daytime dramas helped him walk the straight line. Christopher Scott served over a decade in prison, and while in the middle of the sentence, he developed a passion for soap operas.Ĭhris Scott spent 13 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit.īefore his time in jail, he led a quiet, domestic life with his two sons and his girlfriend.
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