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My Son

  Hampton House by Anneliese Garrison, RN
© written 7/18/07

I did it for us
I did it for Jimmy
I did it for our “family”.

I went to Hampton House.

Upon my release everything
Was gone. Your daddy took away
Everything. My “family” my Jimmy
My “us”.

Because I went to Hampton House.

Does anyone understand what I went through?
Even for just one, two, five days?

I went to Hampton House.

Assigned a room with a bed and strip searched.
Up at 6:00a In bed by 10p.
Short of a prison. Strip searched each day.
Eat a certain time. Outside recreation
A certain time. But okay. I’m doing it for
my “family”.

Yeap, so this is Hampton House.

Come here for R & R and counseling?
What? Five minutes in the hall, how are you?
Lights on at 5:30a for medication and blood pressure
I was not allowed to have any pictures of Jimmy
Without the glass frame removed.
Everything I received had to be reviewed?

I went to Hampton House.

I did it for us
I did it for Jimmy
I did it for our “family”.

I went to Hampton House with visions of hope in my head.

I came out with nothing.
I came out to nothing.
Lost everything.
“Us”.
Jimmy
“Family”.


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