The pain I have caused with my incarceration to my family is the cross I bear, and I pray that I be allowed to enter back into society.
It was an enclosed, spiralling piece and, as I approached it, I was unsure whether I was allowed to enter.
"When I retired, I had to settle down somewhere and I had such a wonderful impression of England from the 1940s, I thought, 'I'll come here.' I was allowed to enter the UK as the government's 'honoured guest' in 1974 - which I found out was very rare".
He intervened with the Bureau of Prisons, and I was allowed to enter a halfway house where I began my reintegration into society, not by cold thrust, but gradually.
In prison, he and others were constantly insulted and tortured, he said, adding: "I was allowed to enter a bathroom four times a day, each time for two minutes, whether I was taking a shower or anything else".
"Some hours later, I was allowed to enter my premises.
There was a break in the action and I was allowed to enter the crime scene.
Anna has come to the cafe to read Michael Cunningham's novel "The Hours," seeking refuge from her thoughts in this other "world I am allowed to enter," with its account of one day in the lives of three different women in three different eras, inspired by Virginia Woolf and her character Mrs. Dalloway.
I was allowed to enter this promised land, to fulfil my dreams," he said.
I am allowed to enter the room full of oversized white balloons.
Am I even allowed to enter the country at all without being accompanied by a man?
