Teen, Young Adult, or Adult Fiction Synopsis: a man is beaten to death by three prison guards on the 15th anniversary of the day he met the one love of his life. He had written a letter to his lover with a poem, and an investigative reporter finds the woman and sends her the letter…we go back to the beginning and relive their story in the woman’s memory. This is a short story inspired by a real event that occurred on August 26, 2015, National Cherry Popsicle Day, in the Santa Clara County Correctional Facility, CA USA It was written one chapter per week in August 2020, following 3 consecutive short story prompts from Reedsy’s weekly short story contest, without knowing what the prompts were going to be. So, the second and third chapters were written as sequels to the first, making three stories. The first and third chapters are general fiction, while the second is romance fiction.