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<blockquote data-quote="Elsi" data-source="post: 739627" data-attributes="member: 23349"><p>I'll second the fresh start. N tells me that moving 2,000 miles away once his parole was up was essential to maintaining the transformation he started in prison. I think it was important that the transformation was already started, though, and he had a strong desire to maintain it. I don't think moving by itself, in his worst years, would have made the difference. But even now, he's almost afraid to be back in his hometown, and he is careful to maintain no or only very limited social media contact with people who knew him at that time. He tells me if he moved back here it would be easy to get sucked into old patterns, even years later. So he stays away. He's encouraged his brother and sister to try to get a fresh start somewhere, but I don't think they are quite stable enough for that to work yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elsi, post: 739627, member: 23349"] I'll second the fresh start. N tells me that moving 2,000 miles away once his parole was up was essential to maintaining the transformation he started in prison. I think it was important that the transformation was already started, though, and he had a strong desire to maintain it. I don't think moving by itself, in his worst years, would have made the difference. But even now, he's almost afraid to be back in his hometown, and he is careful to maintain no or only very limited social media contact with people who knew him at that time. He tells me if he moved back here it would be easy to get sucked into old patterns, even years later. So he stays away. He's encouraged his brother and sister to try to get a fresh start somewhere, but I don't think they are quite stable enough for that to work yet. [/QUOTE]
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