A Visit
Each prisoner impatiently waits for this day with trepidation. The long-anticipated joyous moment seems unreal and surrealistic. An event from a fairy-tale possible only once a year. A visit.
This is meeting with your nearest and dearest face to face. A rare chance to embrace and kiss them, to feel their warmth and care. But not everyone is allowed to visit a prisoner, there is a limited list of those people who are can be admitted. Most often these are first blood relatives and spouses.
I had only my beloved mother left and I was looking forward to seeing her. I would not exchange meeting her for anything else in the world, as the prisoners in the strict regime barrack were allowed one visit a year while other prisoners get the right to have visits every three-four months. Take
