Press On: Prison pen pal romance
By Gary DicksonTen years ago I was living and working in Louisiana. I managed a cluster of newspapers out of Crowley, Louisiana, the rice capital of the south.
Former Congressman and Governor Edwin Edwards was standing trial for bribery and extortion involving state riverboat casino licenses while he was serving as governor. Edwards had also been involved in a major rice scandal involving Korea in the early days of his career in Congress.
The last time Edwards was elected governor was 1991. His opponent was none other than David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. How the choice for the office of governor of a state could come down to those two people is beyond me.
In the New Orleans area the most common bumper sticker during election season was "Vote for the Crook: It's Important." Of course, the identity of the crook went without saying. Everyone knew it was Edwards. He won in a landslide. Around New Orleans people were afraid that having David Duke as governor would be bad for tourism.
Louisiana has always been known for its corrupt and colorful politicians and Edwin Edwards is close to the top of the list in both categories.
Edwards was sentenced to eight years in a federal penitentiary for his illegal casino licensing deals. Just last week I ran across a story involving the latest chapter to Edwards' interesting life story.
At just a month short of his 84th birthday, Edwards married a beautiful, 32-year-old woman who began their relationship by becoming Edwards' prison pen pal. When asked how a man his age could attract such a young wife Edwards said, "People who don't know me don't know what a wonderful, pleasant, modest fellow I am." It was classic Edwin Edwards.
Edwards' new bride said that she started writing to him when he first went to prison and then started visiting him on weekends and holidays. Let's see; that would have been when she was in her early 20s and Edwards would have been older than 75.
I don't really know what motivated Edwards' new and third wife to seek him out when he was in prison. Money is the first thing that comes to mind.
Individuals seeking to be pen pals with prisoners are not uncommon by any means, though. There are websites devoted to helping people connect with a prisoner of their choice. One website mentioned that everyone from "Christians and judges and prison activists to those who are just curious" look for pen pal friendships with inmates.
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The show focused on a couple here in California who met as pen pals and got married at the prison. There is one recent case in which a woman from Belgium married a Michigan prisoner. She was accused of marrying him in order to get a green card.
The two have not talked about what prompted her to choose him as a pen pal. Edwards spent eight years in federal prison for his role in a bribery and extortion scheme to rig riverboat casino licences during his fourth term in the early 1990s.
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Will I Ever Get Married And Am I Ready
By Stephanie Constantina, In-House Writer at SingleDating.com
There’s a whole bunch of getting married questions here that we often hear asked. It’s a vast area, both confused and complicated, by turns sometimes tragic and funny, but let’s see if we can tease out some of the threads and make some sense of it all.
Firstly, “Will I ever get married?” is a question that can sound a little desperate, it often comes from the sense of despair that emanates from someone who considers him or herself unlucky in love. Yet at the heart of this question lies negative thinking. It does not really reflect the reality of anyone’s situation, no matter how real their sense of failure may seem. Negative thinking is a kind of mental groove that anyone can slip into and get stuck there — temporarily, at any rate. But that’s all it really is, a kind of thinking, not a reflection of reality. Change the thinking and you are more likely to change the reality.
When someone is asking “Will I get married?” the answer has to be, on balance and statistically speaking: “Yes probably, if you want to.” Why? Because most people do get married, regardless of their own self-image or how negative that self-image might be. In other words there are plenty of people out there who never thought they would get married, and whose physical or mental attributes would probably be regarded as worse than yours. Yet they got married, so why not you?
If your objective in life is to get married then perhaps you should be asking the question: “How can I increase my chances of getting married?” You can attack this question on all fronts: you can improve yourself physically and perhaps more importantly you can learn ways to free yourself of negative thinking and make yourself into a fun-loving bubbly personality who is also loyal and kind — someone who almost anybody would be proud to marry.
Browse your local personals and find someone who shares your interests and outlook on life now. , is the crux of the matter. The answer depends upon what you are expecting from marriage as such, whether you really want to still be with the same partner in 30 years time, how old or mature you are at the moment, whether it will interfere with your career or other goals in life, and so on.
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