Sed The Advocate

Talkin’ to Tom

This was the last conversation that I had with Tom Richter before he passed away. Tom was my psychologist when I was 14 years old. I was sent to Eau Claire Academy which was a treatment facility for juveniles who were in detention or on their way to detention. This was the last stop before I was sent to detention. I made it out of Eau Claire Academy and back home to Chicago with my Mother and sibilings. A few years later, I was sent to prison where I served 21 years on a homicide conviction. When I returned to society, I moved to Eau Claire and sought Tome out because I hadn’t seen him since I was 15 years old. We would talk every morning at his small home located in his own little section of land. I captured this conversation a few weeks before he died.