I'm grateful that I get to do this as a career.

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Usually, when someone gets free, I can hear it. Their voices get clearer, stronger, joyful. They're alive and lit up about life in a way most people aren't. Getting to experience that? It's better than any drug.

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And it's weird.  It's weird that I get to say that's what I do. 
Weird that what I'd consider the darkest parts of my life, led me here.