I can see how it could be romanticized. Girl is enamored with boy, boy gets sent to jail after being "railroaded" for the accidental death of a girl that enjoyed rough sex, girl waits 15 years for boy to be freed.....and he gets arrested on drug charges the following year.

To me...the lustre would've worn off at that point and I would've said "what the hell am I doing with my life?" and not wait around for this release from jail, much less continue to be involved with him during the commission of yet another felony...one that puts me at risk for jail time too!

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.