Clearwater, Florida
October 12, 2008

Hi Sir,

My name is Brian. I just wanted to say thank you, because you sir have given me so much motivation and inspiration towards so much hope to change my life completely. I’m from Indiana and was born in Indianapolis, and now I’m in Clearwater FL. I’m locked up again facing a sufficient amount of time. But anyway I never picked up a book in my life with the intention to read it completely until last week, October 8, 2008. When I was coming back from the shower, I spotted a book placed in the give away pile out side of my cell that caught my attention. The name of the Book was called “I Lived to tell about it”, by Joey Perez. So I picked up the book and decided to read it. It was so interesting that I just couldn’t place it down, because it was like reading about my personal life. It gave me more hope for myself, because if you could change after all that you been though, and if God can forgive you then maybe he can forgive me.

I have always wanted to change but I couldn’t. And now I’ve lost everything and everyone that I loved so dearly. So now I’m by myself, going though all this hectic time in my life. I am a 27 year old man, who feels like a lost kid and don’t know where to start to change or even if I can. So I feel that I needed to contact you to say thank you for publishing your book. Sir you have helped me and many others’s I’m quite sure of. Sir you don’t know me but you are my friend.

Sincerely your
Friend indeed,
  Brian
  Clearwater Prison

P.S. Thank you!!