Hi, my name is Samantha. I am 34 years of age and I’m currently in the Alexander Maconochie Centre in the ACT. Alongside me is my partner, Thor, who is 36 years of age. I have known Thor for just over 20 years. I have been in and out of jail since 2020, and Thor has been in and out since he was 12 years of age. I have been in love with Thor since I was 15, so it’s been a true love story in the making. We had gotten together in 2019, and it was a dream come true. We had our ups and downs, but doesn’t every relationship. We went our own ways in 2022 because of one big mistake I made, and I will always hate myself for it. For two years I hated life and all I wanted was the man I have always loved back. After two years of hell and misery, in October 2024, Thor and I had made our way back to each other. I couldn’t believe it, because it’s all we both had ever wanted over the past two years. Thor had then been arrested and locked back up in December only a few days before Christmas, which was sad because all we wanted was to spend our first Christmas back together at home. I then was arrested in April 2025. It was sh!t coming back to this place because I was leaving three children behind. But, for Thor, I have never been so in love in my whole life the way I am in love with him. He is one of a kind, and there is no one that compares to the one and only Thor, my one and only.
On 10 July 2025, we had our inter-jail visit, and on that visit Thor was sitting in front of me reading something out that he had written and at the end of it he got down on one knee and asked me to MARRY him. It touched my heart and brought tears to my eyes and it was a BIG YES from me.
Special moments do happen in prison. It was the moment of my life, and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with him.
S&T
TOGETHER FOREVER, NEVER APART
Hi, my name is Samantha. I am 34 years of age and I’m currently in the Alexander Maconochie Centre in the ACT. Alongside me is my partner, Thor, who is 36 years of age. I have known Thor for just over 20 years. I have been in and out of jail since 2020, and Thor has been in and out since he was 12 years of age. I have been in love with Thor since I was 15, so it’s been a true love story in the making. We had gotten together in 2019, and it was a dream come true. We had our ups and downs, but doesn’t every relationship. We went our own ways in 2022 because of one big mistake I made, and I will always hate myself for it. For two years I hated life and all I wanted was the man I have always loved back. After two years of hell and misery, in October 2024, Thor and I had made our way back to each other. I couldn’t believe it, because it’s all we both had ever wanted over the past two years. Thor had then been arrested and locked back up in December only a few days before Christmas, which was sad because all we wanted was to spend our first Christmas back together at home. I then was arrested in April 2025. It was sh!t coming back to this place because I was leaving three children behind. But, for Thor, I have never been so in love in my whole life the way I am in love with him. He is one of a kind, and there is no one that compares to the one and only Thor, my one and only.
On 10 July 2025, we had our inter-jail visit, and on that visit Thor was sitting in front of me reading something out that he had written and at the end of it he got down on one knee and asked me to MARRY him. It touched my heart and brought tears to my eyes and it was a BIG YES from me.
Special moments do happen in prison. It was the moment of my life, and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with him.
S&T
TOGETHER FOREVER, NEVER APART
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