The following episode contains graphic material and distressing themes that may be triggering to some audiences.

This is a global tell link prepaid call from...

Crystal.

An inmate at Anson Correctional Center. This call will be and some correctional center.

This call will be monitored and recorded for kids.

Crystal Howell had, by virtue of the unfortunate turn of events, been forced to live with her

dad in Maggie Valley, North Carolina.

She struggled to acclimate to the environment, far away from her friends and home in Georgia.

It was a new routine.

With her short, bouncy brunette curls that danced around her sizable piercing blue eyes,

Crystal tried to make the best of it and adapt to her father's way of life.

It was a far cry from what she was used to.

I would go to school. He would take me up from the bus stop. We would do a daily hike each day.

We would have dinner. We would sit on the porch. And my dad called it family bonding time.

He was kind of being sarcastic about it.

And so we'd sit on the porch and we would watch the sun go down.

And there's this cross, a few mountains over.

I think the mountain is called Mount Lynn Lowry.

And so every night they light up this cross.

And so we would stay out there until that cross lit up. Young, innocent love is not without its fair share of teen drama.

Having only been dating for a few months, Crystal and Tyler Lee kept the relationship going despite the long distance.

Crystal longed for the person that understood her the most, her boyfriend Tyler.

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