elevator love letter

One of the paradoxes of solitary confinement is that, as starved as people become for companionship, the experience typically leaves them unfit for social interaction. Once, Dellelo was allowed to have an in-person meeting with his lawyer, and he simply couldn’t handle it. After so many months in which his primary human contact had been an occasional phone call or brief conversations with an inmate down the tier, shouted through steel doors at the top of their lungs, he found himself unable to carry on a face-to-face conversation.

1) This is extremely interesting

2) I love having time to read things that aren’t notes or textbooks

3) I drive past the Walpole prison mentioned in this article every time I go to the dentist

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