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A GOOD LAUGH GOES A LONG WAY

     We all know people that are truly funny.  It is nice to have one living

next door to me.  I live in A-dorm, which is comprised of 50 women residing

in 2-women cubicles.  Let me translate- no privacy.  If your neighbor snores,

it feels like she's in the same cube. This evening I was walking from the

community bathroom to my room, and heard "Jay"(our comedian) tell our

bus driver, "You are not even a good white! You need to find another race!"

Well, I try not to let my neighbors know I ear hustle, and secretly nosey, so

I tried to keep a straight face walking pass the cube they were in.  It

didn't work.  Our bus driver said, "Ms. Turpin!" so that I could comment, and

I burst out laughing so hard I almost peed on myself.   Today was a good

day because it was my first day of Zumba class, after doing Bob Harper's

biggest loser tape, and I felt productive.  In the Zumba class, my bunkie Amanda

said behind me, "my body doesn't move like that.  All of the white girls here

are moving another way, in the opposite direction."  And sure enough, they

were!  Another good laugh watching them in action.  The class was a lot of

fun because I love to dance.  Prison is hard.  We all miss our children, grand-

children, parents and mates, but its nice to have a good laugh and people

like Jay keeps laughter radiating throughout the dorm. 

Laugh- it's soothing to the soul....

Rhonda Turpin

author, publisher, prisoner

Danbury Federal Camp

3/5/2015