Hope & a stamp
July 2022 | The Annual Prison Issue | On the Cover

Hope & a stamp

If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would be writing and trying to be helpful to men I never met, I would have thought them crazy, but here I am.

I’m a meat cutter, and for a long time I worked a normal job with regular daily hours. Then one day I went to work and the store manager said the store would be closing. As a recovering alcoholic, the interesting part of losing this job was that I didn’t despair. During my time in AA, I’ve come to trust an infinite God rather than a finite self.

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