I drove up to Hall county Jail, looking for the bus stop. Paul told me he'd be waiting for me in his cell, waving a white sheet in his window. I parked my car in front of the bus stop and within 10 sec I saw a white sheet waving excitedly from inside one of the tiny windows on the side of the building. Paul's cell! I stood outside the car and jumped up and down and waved and blew kisses. Rapunzel Rapunzel let down your hair!
This was my 4th time visiting the jail, as I do any time I'm near the vicinity of Georgia. It worked out great this time, as I had a gig in North Carolina and was able to visit Paul twice, once on the way up and once on the way back. I'm always afraid that they will find some reason not to let me visit. They are allowed to turn you away basically if they feel like it. But all went well...I gave them my I.D., had to turn towards some window so someone could look at me (?) went through a metal detector, took the elevator up to the 4th floor...walked down the long ominous hallway, buzzered the door and saw Paul waving and smiling at me through the glass.
I take my seat in the little "cubicle" type thing. We have to try 4 different cubicles before we find one with a working phone. We pick up our phones (Paul has to constantly jiggle his to make it work) and get a nice long 45 min visit. Visits are only supposed to be 25 min, but I think they forgot about us, which is lucky for us.
Paul is amazing as always, smiling, joking, laughing, telling me we're the strongest people in Georgia and that we can get through anything. "we got this" he says. And I believe him.
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