Hole in the Heart from Uncuffed

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Do you remember the moment you saw your first love? Rodney Hines sure does. He was 13 years old, and it was the 4th of July. His parents took him to their friends’ house where he saw Shani Browning. For the next two decades, their lives each resembled a rollercoaster ride with dramatic ups and downs.

One day on the yard at Solano State Prison, Hines was recounting the details of how the relationship with his childhood crush transformed into a tragic love affair. Uncuffed producer Anthony Ivy realized he needed to get Hines into the studio to tell his story.

Produced by Anthony Ivy with help from Andrew Stelzer, Sonia Paul, Kathy Novak, Angela Johnston, Ninna Gaensler-Debs, and sound designer Eric 'Maserati-E 'Abercrombie.

This story, Hole In The Heart: A Love Stronger Than Prison Walls originally aired on Uncuffed. Uncuffed is KALW's award-winning radio training program and podcast in California prisons. Listen on any podcast platform!

Season 15 - Episode 28

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0:00.0	Snap Studios.
0:05.0	I'm Angela Duckworth, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of grit the power of passion and
0:15.2	perseverance and I'm Mike Mann a sports and tech executive.
0:19.2	Together we host no stupid questions a podcast about the weird and wonderful ways that humans behave.
0:27.0	Each week we tackle questions like,
0:29.0	Is it okay to be average or would you rather be a big fish in a little pond or a little fish in a big pond?
0:35.0	Join no stupid questions each week wherever you get your podcast. Hopefully snap judgment. Hope from the Snap Judgment, The Whole and the Heart episode. My
0:58.0	I'm Washington. And our story today comes from our friends at KALW's uncuffed, the award-winning
1:04.2	podcast created by people incarcerated in San Quentin and Salano prisons.
1:09.2	And this is a story about love. First love.
1:16.0	And then was Shaneh Browning.
1:18.0	I caught her cakes though.
1:20.0	When I first made eye contact with her, I like wow she kind of different kind of I mean I was feeling her off the dribble you feel me like even right now I heard her voice in my head. You know I'm seeing like she got a voice that's real unique.
1:35.0	She was trying to eat black, like that long jet black curly hair.
1:39.0	So what was the reason like you never holle at her?
1:42.0	For one, I was a few years younger than her,
1:45.0	and I'm from the concrete, so I seen her as a higher skill.
1:52.0	Tell me like over the years, seen her as a higher skill.
1:53.0	Tell me like over the years,
1:55.0	what kept y'all apart?
1:57.0	So I'm just like life.
2:00.0	I don't think we was able to really have a moment.
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