VALENTINE'S DAY AT THE PRISON

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, EVERYONE!  I WROTE A WHOLE BIG ENTRY EARLIER THIS EVENING, BUT HAD COMPUTER TROUBLE, AND IT GOT DELETED...SO HERE I GO AGAIN! JIMMY CALLED ME 4 TIMES TODAY..9A, WAS THE FIRST CALL.THEN, 12N, 5P, AND 9P.I HAD MY Photo BOOK FROM LAST YEAR'S VALENTINES DAY OUT ON THE BED ALL DAY.JIMMY HAD PRESENTED ME WITH LOTS OF GIFTS LAST YEAR. CHOCOLATES, ROSES, STUFFED TOYS, AND A BEAUTIFUL DIAMOND PENDANT HEART.I KNEW THAT ON MARCH 28, HE WOULD GO TO COURT, THEN PRISON. SO, I WAS SAD AND FRIGHTENED, TOO. TIME IS LIKE A CIRCLE FOR US. IT STARTED LAST MARCH,AND THE CIRCLE WILL SOON RETURN TO WHERE IT STARTED IN MARCH."THE CIRCLE OF TIME..THE CIRCLE OF LOVE...THE CIRCLE I WALK OUTSIDE.IT ALL MEANS SOMETHING. TIME IS CYCLIC. IT IS NOT LINEAR. TIME HAS NO BEGINNING AND NO END.  IT IS INFINITY. THEREFORE THE CIRCLE WILL NOT CLOSE, BUT WILL SPIRAL UPWARD, INTO ANOTHER SPHERE...ANOTHER DIMENSION.  WE TALKED ABOUT "LOVE" THINGS ON THE PHONE TODAY. "WE MADE IT TO MARCH, DIDN'T WE , FRAN?" HE SAID.  YES. AND TIME HAS A WAY OF COMPRESSING. BOTH OF US FEEL THIS UNUSUAL PHENOMENAL OCCURANCE. THAT IS, WE DON'T FEEL IT'S A YEAR.IT FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY.JIMMY KEEPS MY PHOTOS ABOVE HIS BUNKBED.TONIGHT THE GUYS GATHERED AROUND HIM. HE SHOWED THEM PIX.VALENTINE'S DAY ORIGINATED IN THE 5TH CENTURY.EMPEROR CLAUDIUS HAD BANNED MARRIAGE FROM HIS EMPIRE.HE FELT MARRIED MEN MADE POOR SOLDIERS. BUT VALENTINE , A PRIEST,WOULD SECRETLY MARRY THOSE THAT CAME TO HIM .ONE NIGHT, HE WAS CAUGHT AND THROWN IN PRISON. HE WAS TOLD HE WOULD BE BEHEADED. YOUNG LOVERS STILL CAME TO THE PRISON TO VISIT HIM. THEY THREW FLOWERS AND NOTES UP TO HIS WINDOW. THEY WANTED HIM TO KNOW THAT THEY TOO STILL BELIEVED IN LOVE. HE FELL IN LOVE WITH THE BLIND DAUGHTER OF THE PRISON GUARD. SHE WAS ALLOWED TO VISIT HIM, AND SIT IN HIS CELL WITH HIM. HIS LOVE FOR HER,AND HIS GREAT FAITH, MANAGED TO MIRACULOUSLY HEAL HER BLINDNESS.IN 270 AD,VALENTINE WAS BEHEADED. BEFORE HE WAS TAKEN TO HIS DEATH, HE SIGNED A FAREWELL MESSAGE TO HIS LOVE."FROM YOUR VALENTINE,"IT SAID. ON FEB. 14, WE CELEBRATE THE TRADITION OF "LOVE" WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KEEP THIS TRADITION GOING, BECAUSE "LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND!"