Holly`s story

OOOOH it is sooooo exciting! so many things happening, such hope and promises, imagine: the nurse hugged him last week at the check-up, and said : "this is the last time", everyone is waiting and anxious.
My friend Maarten camer down to have Brad sign a contract to produce aerial smuggler, everything is happening at once!
He himself is anxious and nervous. I made a deal with him: whatever happens we will survive!
if worst comes to worst, he will be sent back to Adulto Mayor and sit it out until the 8th of march 2008, at which date he will definitely have paid his debt to the costa rican society, and will be free to come and go as he pleases. I promised to have Esteban bring him a laptop so he can do his work correctly, and we will go on as we do now, sending books and all. If the BEST EVER happens, he will board a plane with us on wednesday morning, to Nederland. In between there is a whole range of possibilities:
Deportation to the States and forbidden to ever set foot in Costa Rica again.
Parole: living with a family a few days a week and 2 nights a week in what they call halfway house (sleep there at night, work in the day) for 2-3-6 months or a year, till march 8th.
Anyway this is as it goes.
We had fabulous times at the jail, got to know so many men with touching stories, this one who shot his wife BY ACCIDENT during a fight in the car(like Bradley says: what was he doing with a loaded gun in the car?) This bank manager whose assistent ran off with 350 million dollars, and he took the fall, the gynecologist who drugged and raped his patient (Not a friend of ours, but an interesting story!) and so on. Of course they are ALL innocent, all waiting for a fair trial.
The director of the prison, the one who kindly let us use his computer last week came to hug us friday. the whole prison stood still. What a show! what a earth shaking news, what a juicy gossip to tell in the years to come.
There is a yellow line painted on the ground by the gate. The prisoners are not allowed to cross that line under any circumstances. One day very soon he WILL cross the yellow line and wave back one last time.