Last night, I spoke with one of my former student athletes and his mom thru video chat. His mom had reached out to me several times during the course of my incarceration but I hadn& #39;t talked to the kid in over two years...

The kid literally had tears in his eyes because he was so shocked to see me thru his mom& #39;s video chat. She let us talk for a few moments by ourselves. I found out that he had switched schools soon after I left. I learned that he had been bullied relentlessly before that...

But he said that the reason he was crying was because I was one of the only people throughout his entire school tenure that ever treated him with respect. He said I always made him feel safe. And, even before I was his coach, he looked up to me...

Then I started to cry... this is the reason that I have to keep going. This is the reason that I never lost sight of who I really am thru all of this. Things always get darkest before the dawn... but I see the light over the horizon.

I don& #39;t have many followers here, yet. And not a lot of people will see these tweets. But I wanted this documented so that I could look back on it in times of doubt and remind myself of just who tf I am! This thread is more for me than anyone else.