“I ran a tight ship with my boys, and I run a tight ship here at this group home,” she tells me as we meet in her living room. “But it’s a ship where everyone aboard can feel safe. I don’t care about any mistakes you might have made or that were made against you, and I don’t count those mistakes as defining who you are. I know life can be unfair. I know things can happen to you that you don’t deserve. I also know there might be decisions you made in the past that you’d like to undo and can’t. But here in this house, we look to tomorrow, not yesterday. Does that sound like something you can
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