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'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'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'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.