Dear Potential Pen Pal,
My name is Tommy and I try to put 100% in everything I do. Hopefully, my words reach out to you and we can establish some form of communication. I will let you know who I am, where I am, and why I am. Then hopefully two good people can come together. Here is a description of my physical self. I stand 5'10" and weigh 200. I have broad shoulders, and work my arms, chest, and neck. I have a shaved head and although I'm Irish, I have an olive skin tone. I have been mistaken for Puerto Rican or Portugese before. On February 8th, I will turn 33. I have had my share of indulging, but that was sometime ago. I am in good condition, but I am not excessively health concious. I'm from the San Francisco Bay area, I'm the youngest and the only boy, my two sister's, my mother, and father are all back home. Since my arrest in February 2005, my perspective on life has changed tremendously, my priorities are my family, and to finally be there for them. They have never given up on me, therefore, I nvever gave up on myself. Hopefully, this is not boring you. I am trying to paint a picture of the guy behind the pen. At the age of 18, I stumbled into a crazy life lot's of coke sniffing and at 20 had a kid that I do not know. He is 12 now and I haven't seen him for 10 years. She decided to move on and I did also, it was a mutual agreement. At this time, I was compelled to ramble on. South Carolina, New Mexico, Manhattan, the Bronx, Providence, and Boston. I resided for a short time in South Carolina and New Mexico, and NYC. Rhode Island and Boston for extended amounts of time. My only regret is the choices I made at each new place. All my plans were curtailed by the FBI Bank Robbery task force first in Sept. 2004, I made bail on that case in Dec 2004, only to be picked up again on another bank's in Feb 2005 in NYC. I plead guilty and I'm hoping to be out in April 2010. MA sentenced me to 4 to 5 years, then another case in MA added a year, my lawyer is working on getting that year knocked off. In RI, I was sentenced to 15 years with 8 to serve running retro and concurrent with MA. My RI lawyer is fixing that. The latest I'm  looking at is April 2011. Bit, I'm pretty confident it will be April 2010. Are you still with me? Do you find this hard to comprehend or identify with? I hope not. There is no denying that what I did was wrong, I have done plenty of that. I'm quite capable of making money by more favorable means. I will be driving a truck in the Bay area. I'm aware that the world I'm returning to isn't the same as when I left. Tell me how or what else I could express to you on paper that I have not already. The last several years I have become quite reclusive to preserve myself from being institutionalized as much as possible after being placed in such adverse surroundings. There is so much more to me just waiting to be bestowed. It's funny becasue I've always been an open and generous person. Joking and having fun were very much a part of my character. Prison in a way has cornered that part of me. I miss the small things, fresh air, a cold beer, a companion, my mother, my father. Prison is a terrible palce, but I used it to my advantage by restructuring myself. I have learned to appreciate the small things. Hopefully, you are someone not afraid to take a chance. Someone who is willing to go the extra mile when the tank reads empty. Are you with me? Am I reaching you? For all my trials and tribulations, I remain optimistic, things happen for a reason. But the more I learn, the more I realize how little I know. Before I go, we have all had our ups and downs, some worse than others. Some scars may be so deeply imbedded that time will not even heal them. We cannot exist without love and happiness. But love is like the moth attraced by the bright light. I'm somewhat similar to that moth. Because I'm consumed by this thing we call love. Now You? What's your story?

Thomas Flannery #W86388
MCI Shirley
PO Box 1218
Shirley, MA 01464