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My stomach has been churning since yesterday. All sorts of thoughts are going through my head.  \nIs Mam going to be okay?  \nHave I got everything I need in my bag? What are my sisters going to think?  \nWhat are the lads going to say?  \nI’m sitting outside the courthouse. I need to be called, as there are entry restrictions due to COVID-19 . I’m freezing and getting soaked, but I’m oblivious to it all. I’m in another world mentally – and about to enter another one physically.  \nThe text beep sounds. I take my phone from my pocket. It’s from Denise, my solicitor.‘Come now …Court 3,’ it says. I take a deep breath, grab my bag and head for the door.  \nWhen I get into Court 3, I’m relieved that there’s nobody there except the prosecution barristers and my legal team. I then notice the arresting gardaí in the corner. I take my place in the area reserved for the defendants. My goose, 36 years in the making, is finally cooked.  \nJudge Tom O’Donnell arrives, takes his seat and gets straight to the point. He’s a decent man, and I am hoping for the best but not really expecting it.  \n‘In the matters of sheets 84 and 85, I sentence you to three years. However, due to the delay in sentencing, which was in no way your fault, I reduce this to two years.’  \nMy heart sinks at the initial sentence but lifts a bit when he announces the reduction. I take great heart from this. Two years, less remission, leaves me with 18 months. With good behaviour, I can get that reduced further. This isn’t so bad, I think to myself.  \n‘In the matter of Sheet 87, I sentence you to 12 months,’ the judge then says. The next words he speaks are crucial.  \n‘To be served consecutively.’  \nMy heart sinks again. Consecutive sentencing means that the sentence handed down will be added to the sentence already given. The word I wanted, needed, to hear was concurrent. That way it would be served within the initial two-year sentence. So now I am sentenced to three years. The‘not so bad’ sentiment has totally vanished. I thought I would take the news badly. I envisaged fainting, crying, pleading. Instead, I just sit there, in acceptance. And I don’t know why. My initial reaction to all previous times I thought I was going to be imprisoned was immediate panic, fear and trepidation. This time, there is an eerie acceptance of my fate. I don’t know why I am as calm as I am. I tell myself it is me finally accepting things: Iam finally going to end up where I deserve to be. The towel is thrown in, the white flag furiously waving.  \nI give instructions to my solicitor about contacting my family. I grab my bag and walk towards the holding cells, accompanied by a prison officer.  \nFinally, it is here. The fruits of my being a hopelessly compulsive gambler. It finally dawns upon me that I’m not as clever as I thought I was, and that those consequences I have been warned about for so many years are finally here.  \nMy new life is just beginning.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER 1  \n’mlotwris oftinbigogtrisphias aes andgamautlingbiograadpdhiicets. atth wryea herMoe arst ofmyem  \nrecollections and experiences that have led me to where I am today. I’ve  \ninclude a chapter or two to describe childhood years and the early experiences that made you what you are today. A lot of these chapters tell of neglect, abuse and bad influences that helped shape the lives of whoever the story is about. I’m going to keep that brief for a few reasons, my family being the main one. 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