Florida State Prison, April 2011
Dear Ava,
You aren’t going to believe this, in a thousand years you aren’t going to believe what I’m going to tell you.
I’ve been told the identity of the person who saw me that night, parked at the side of the road near Sanford; it was my Mom, yes my Mom.
I still can’t get over it. Of all the people in all the world, the one person who can save my life turns out to be one of the people who almost killed me as a child, one of the people I wished dead a thousand times over, and, do you know why she has only just come forward to save her condemned son? It was because of you.
You have quite possibly saved my life Ava and I almost rejected you for it.
Apparently my Mom has secretly kept tabs on me all these years. At odd intervals she’s travelled to the c
