Final Visit

Sorry in advance for the delay of this response.

I was actually dreading going to Bon Air for this final time. I did not know how to say bye. I felt like I was just starting to get to know Trenton and now I will probably never see him again. When we broke up to get his story, I asked for a time that he felt changed who he was today. He immediately said he wanted to tell the story of why he was there. He had never brought this up to me the whole time we went to Bon Air and I felt a connection to him at this moment. I thought he trusted me. His story was really sad. But something that really made me think was that he was happy it happened. He felt that if he had not been locked up, he would have been killed on the streets. We live very different lives. I never have to worry about this kind of stuff and I really take it for granted. Saying goodbye was really awkward. Nobody knew how to approach it and I really wish it had gone better. As we were leaving, Eric said that he really didn’t want to come when we first started but that he is so grateful that we did. It made me feel really good.