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Love Inside...
(extracted from an article published in The Big Issue, 19 July 2004)

...A neatly dressed, balding man with some alarming facial scars leaned back in his chair and treated me to a list of already familiar complaints about the state of the prison showers and so on. Suddenly he brightened, changed tack and told me: ‘But of course, there's one good thing. My marriage is far, far better since I came in here.’ We both laughed; he went on to explain how, inside, he had become more thoughtful about his wife and their relationship. He had plenty of spare time and could give her the kind of attention she had always wanted. They wrote every day; he had begun to know her in ways which he never had before. ‘The honesty can be heavy. She has to have her say. But it's like a kind of honeymoon,’ he aid, cutting the conversation midstream to take up his turn at the computer.
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Writing Alphabet

You could say that I have spent the three years it took to complete Alphabet co-habiting with a dangerous man. Someone brutal and manipulative, but also damaged, intelligent, and, occasionally, charming. My family were forced to be close to this man as well. It was something of a roller coaster ride and from time to time, all of us felt we had had more than enough of him. The fact is, though, that when a character like this arrives, you can’t throw him out. Just as in a real relationship, you have to keep going until whatever you came together for is complete. It’s only afterwards that you can look back and put it into perspective.
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Excerpt from Alphabet

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