In the first entries of her Rikers Diaries, the Felonist begins writing to her younger self — "Little Felonist” — in a series of raw, unguarded letters that trace the origins of pressure, silence, and self‑erasure. From the dorms of Rikers Island, she reaches back into a childhood shaped by impossible responsibility, emotional suppression, and the demand to be the “good girl” no matter the cost. These diary pages reveal how perfectionism, caretaking, secrecy, and the need to appear “fine” became survival strategies long before incarceration. As she writes, the Felonist begins to see the architecture of her own undoing — and the first fragile outlines of who she might become without the roles she was forced to play. Letters to Little Felonist marks the true beginning of the Rikers Diaries: a private reckoning, a return to the child she left behind, and the first attempt to tell the truth without being punished for it.