This work's 2 volumes contain 72 letters written between 1999 and 2005. Each went to a male prisoner born September 19, 1979. They sought to turn him away from his addiction to crime. It's doubtful they succeeded. That's a minor issue. While trying to increase the receiver's self-knowledge, the author increased his own to the point that, on August 1, 2004, he suddenly found himself apparently freed from 2 of his own addictions. One had plagued him for 55 years and the other for 64 years. The author now hopes that the self-knowledge con­tained in these 2 volumes shall free many addicts from their addictions. If so, these 2 volumes constitute one of the most important self-help works ever written.