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[sil.]

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[music]

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It puts you in a predicament

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where you gotta go real, real fast.

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Well, (inaudible) since I was 12, 13.

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People who you stay with start to get
tired and you got to rotate now.

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After while your feet get tired, man. You should
be moving. You don’t get no sleep at all.

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I don’t have any undergarments. I don’t any
clothes, I don’t have toothbrush, toothpaste,

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I can’t go to school like,

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is… this like the life that I’m
gonna live for the rest of my live.

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I got put out here all some bogus type shit

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but I can’t be out here like this.
I gotta get better for myself.

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It’s like really nerve-racking.
At that moment

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that you don’t know what’s on the other
side, you just hope for the best.

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[music]

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They are really, really skillful at
hiding, what’s wrong, or what’s missing.

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You guys have chapter one, you guys have chapter
two. I was just still trying to making it

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and break through but how you gonna change it? How you will make
your story better? How you gonna write next chapter of your life.

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Just woke up. It’s first day of (inaudible)

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again I have to get ready.

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So it’s umm… about 6:11.

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6:10 in the morning.

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And I have to get dressed. That’s
my big bag for the day. Yeah.

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[music]

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[music]

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I have to be my own parents.
I don’t need anybody

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to tell me to take things seriously.

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Loneliness is one of my
worst and I’m using that,

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I wouldn’t wish it not even to any enemy.

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[music]

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We are in one of

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my teacher’s house. Whenever
I needed somewhere to sleep

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or to eat or whatever, I needed
she was there for me. Mrs Rivera?

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Yes, (inaudible). Do you have like a
Spanish, English dictionary thing.

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Hold on.

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What I liked the most about it is I felt

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the anger that he felt in a way.
My dad had this

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huge problem with immigration
and he had to leave.

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My mom remarried pretty
quick, and so I felt

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really betrayed by them, so I
could connect that with Hamlet.

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Which scene is this one?

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To be or not to be fill (inaudible)…

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Mrs Rivera introduced me this Shakespeare,
which was life-changing for me.

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I had to be off of school for three months

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so I failed most of my classes.
I need to get back on track

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so it could be better for my future.

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I’m the worst score for shopper ever.

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What about lasagna? Could you eat lasagna?
(inaudible),

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what is in the pot with a ramen noodles?
Are they’re noodles? Yeah. Yeah.

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She’s making cake and she’s
making noodles. And mom is

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making brown (inaudible)…
This is my brown (inaudible)…

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You good? Need help? Okay.

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[sil.]

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I always (inaudible). If I wasn’t
married then I would have an attic

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full of bunk beds and high-school
students and that could still happen.

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Bobby’s bending more every day.

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I knew that he felt like he
didn’t have anywhere to go.

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He would say drop me off at this place, it wouldn’t be the
place they were living the day before and then I started

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to see him circling, and
so then I started circling

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and I was like this… he is not going home.
His father is just incredibly mobile,

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and parents divorced long go,

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umm… the mama’s remarried and
the daughter lives there,

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but it doesn’t appear or have
been offered that he live there.

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When we offered room,
he took it immediately

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and in front of me, he called both parents

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umm… and there was \"No, no,
Roque, come here.\" You know,

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uh… and so that was heartbreaking.

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This is umm…

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where I live I guess. So…

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[music]

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It’s not fare. You just
let somebody whither?

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[music]

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You gotta adapt to your surroundings.

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That’s how I see it. I could be,
you know, in a worse situation.

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[music]

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I never had my own space. I
always had to share room

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with my mama, my little brother and my sister.
All had the same, same… Come on (inaudible)…

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You do not know how good it feels
to have your own beds especially,

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and sleeping with your grandma,
especially, she like to fart a lot like,

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oh my God, this is my best friend (inaudible).
Her name Patrice but I call her (inaudible).

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This one is my favorite book. It is Othello

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by William Shakespeare. Iago, he play…

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the best part is because he was
like going between two people.

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He was helping one person get the other
person back but he was friends with Othello

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so he basically screwed him
over… again, they are like

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I’ll fight him back though. It was
totally (inaudible). My teacher gave me

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yesterday this book, she was like, \"You are one
of the smartest people in my class. Why are you

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not doing your work? Why are you not coming to school?
Kasey, there’s some stuff you don’t understand.

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[music]

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It was because of the way that I am that my mother, you know,
like got rid of me because… (inaudible) you are, right…

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Like, because you know, I’m a lesbian and
my granny find this out like, \"Okay,

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I’m gonna take you in because you’re my granddaughter.\" There…
She pulled me down so bad that I was getting depressed,

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my hair was falling down. I was
getting sick, had to go the hospital.

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Everything and I’m like, I can’t be
here because it’s really tear me apart,

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like I’m about to sleep than staying with my
family because they break me down so bad.

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Like the first two weeks, I was
living on the street literally

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like in a part going to police station. People used
to say, (inaudible) a homeless shouting out there.

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I tell them, yeah, you know, like
some people, \"They got on, what?\"

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Every young person that becomes
homeless is not because they’re bad.

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This place is how you can get on your
feet so you can get to a better place,

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but like, you know, some bad
person because you ended up

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in this situation is a situation.
It’s not who you are.

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[music]

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I woke up in my (inaudible) in this morning.
Did you go to the medication today?

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(inaudible)… But that was bad, right?
What your (inaudible)…

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Hmm. Hmm. I don’t know. I’m trying to

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not do the medication. Why? I just
don’t want to take the medication.

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Why not? (inaudible) is good enough for me.
I just want you to say…

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I don’t wanna take the medication, Kalvin. Why?
Because I don’t want to take the medication.

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But why? Because…

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You think it was (inaudible) medication
for pain. Yeah. But every time

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I get a pain, I’m on medication.
So you saying

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you don’t want to addicted
to meditation. Yeah.

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Okay. That’s all I want to hear. You just gonna
say that the first thing. I did. I say why,

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I kept saying why you don’t want to take the medication? Well,
if you already knew then why did you ask? I didn’t know.

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You have to tell me. Ah,
I began stuck like,

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I kept stuck and don’t know what to do.

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You been to (inaudible).

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School says you’re not graduating.
A week later

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your uncle passed. Then three
days after that, best friend,

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stabbed in the lungs. I
could do a lot of stuff

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that would put me in a really bad place.
Just because of the stuff that I go through.

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But I don’t because she was there too.
Because I don’t like

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to fall low. If I fall
harder than what I have now…

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I have to finish schooling.
I have to finish school,

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that is not a choice.

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[music]

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Is there anybody who has any
place that you go tonight

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other than here because we’re going to have a (inaudible)
and everybody is not gonna be able to get in,

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so if you have another place to go, we’re gonna ask you
to go there because they’re only allowed to our house

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20 people, I mean, it’s sucks ‘cause it’s raining
tonight and I stay out. You really don’t want to

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turn anybody away. Darian…

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That was 18, 2 more. (inaudible)…

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Where you gonna go?

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How you do it?

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Better or not that indoor. (inaudible)…

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Laundry and shower, over there,
follow me, follow me, follow me…

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Can you form some sort of (inaudible)…

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No, we’re gonna get a shower at…
Okay, 10 o’clock. (inaudible)…

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Okay. 10:20.

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All right everyone. (inaudible),
we’re about to do (inaudible).

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I’m thankful to get me on
the live and breathing

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and I’m also being (inaudible)
and want the food.

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And I’m also thanking for my… and this hat.

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Thank you for having (inaudible)…

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(inaudible) I was gonna be sleeping in the
cars every night. I slept under the car,

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I would pray to God, please
don’t let this car move.

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I have no one that wants to actually
look for me or (inaudible) like that.

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I’m out here all alone.

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Almost every young person has experienced
physical and sexual assault.

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They have their stuff stolen all the
time, they’re constantly criminalized

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for just survival behaviors.
These are the things

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that are treacherous about the
way street kids lives work.

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We’ve been learning about how to

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safely and smoothly have 20 plus
people in a very small space.

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We’ve managed to do without saying,
tell me why you’re homeless.

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Tell me where you stayed last night. They
don’t even have to tell us their legal name.

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[music]

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Hello everybody.

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Umm… First of all, thank you all for coming out today.
I’ve been homeless for awhile now since I’ve been like 14

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on my own but you know, I’m good, right.

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This poem is called \"Promised a Casket.\" You know
like, once we wanted a life, we promised that day,

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you know, when we should perish. You know,
how I got this limited amount of time

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but I think it’s beautiful. I mean, it’s a complete
nature, you come in and you go to make way

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for new things. Thomas, the
casket gave birth to madness,

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car crashes dust masses(ph) releases souls (inaudible) and
not so we turn new caskets. Stress passes to those asking

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why the caskets looking to (inaudible) now life that the
(inaudible) gave birth to what is known as the end.

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This is reality. No comparison

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to pretend, what life ends.

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It extends. Or should I say it begins.

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Suggestive reminder for those who
asking why the caskets. Just remember

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that you promised the casket. (inaudible)…

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In the end, all you have
is yourself depend on.

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Me, I has so many big dreams.
So many things

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I want to accomplish and it’s…
it’s hard because, we lose faith

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and you hope. And sometimes,

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we go down a wrong path and we
never get to see the light.

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[sil.]

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I was trying to find ways to take
care of myself and I started began

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to the street life and I started
stealing in, robbing people

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to get the things that I needed.

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I got called for armed robbery.

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But since I was a minor, I dropped to like

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aggravated robbery and I filed a probation.

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I end up staying at a shelter

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for adults and there was not the best.

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And I got on the TLP waiting lists and
I was like this is my opportunity

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to make my life better. Is
it your environment that

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makes it to where you can’t come to your highest economic
success or as you are believed in your behavior?

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It attacked your mission, then they attacked vision, then
they attacked spiritually, then they attack you here,

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here, there, so there’s so many ways to get caught up any.
You (inaudible) and then you can’t even think straight

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because there’s too much going on, there’s
distracting… Then that energy that you

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came in with, it just started to shift because
there are… there are things opening for you.

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Ah, eh, where Kasey is?

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Ah, what up Joe, grab your plate man.
I can’t wait till I get in school.

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You gonna work? Till January.
And now things

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gonna good with a job. I might just
well longer than that, you know.

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I thought it gonna be hard because
I had dropped out of school.

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What’s them growing in the garden? You know
what them is? You see like them like circles

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like always bottom at the ground by the
shadow. I don’t know what that is?

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Ah, these look like tomatoes. Yeah. Yeah,
they… they’re not ripe here though.

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Oh ho, my God, took one off.
I guess I’ll keep it.

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Keep it for some bananas(ph).

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I set a couple of goals myself like,
I’ve been working on finishing GD

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and own my own apartment.
You know, I got a… a son.

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I already wanna be out for (inaudible). I
haven’t saved them in a couple of months, but…

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[music]

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I didn’t even know how to do this program.
I just thought myself

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(inaudible) in one (inaudible)…

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Don’t you look just like me now, (inaudible)
like me now, your mother used to love me,

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now she hate me now. Either way it won’t
break me down. (inaudible) tell it all

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if you look into the stars, you will see it all. You started
off the seed that you grew tree tall and I put on my life

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then I give him a Aw, I’m trying
to get my life situated, you know,

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so I could be there for him. And this is a lot… like I’ll…
I’ll put my messages in the song so (inaudible) decode them

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when he get old enough.

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[music]

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[sil.]

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Are you gonna sign?

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You have to tell me what it means or I
don’t know. Father, mother. Good job.

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Okay, so the 15th to the 22nd, we’re
gonna try to see as many colleges

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as we can see. Dominican
and (inaudible) were both

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outreach to people that
don’t have documentation,

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but you’re gonna need your better score

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and you’re gonna need a 90. Damn I do.
I know, like you can get

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work-study and all those things that can help pay for
school but still without the papers, they can’t…

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they can’t do that. What’s that?

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America.

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Like including everyone. Sure.

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Sometimes with stipulation. When I was

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younger than Roque, my parents divorced

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and together they weren’t great at parenting
and separate they were twice as bad at it.

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One of the places I stayed the longest
with my friend and her parents

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who were just crack heads and they
would sell our shoes, uh… my socks

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while I was at school. There was just
no way to live and nobody said anything

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like the entire time I was in high school. No one
ever said, \"Are you okay? Do you need anything?

00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:04.999
Can I feed you? I noticed you’ve been wearing
the same clothes all week.\" And so when I watch

00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:09.999
those kids I can’t just stand
there and not do something.

00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.999
Like people that I… I
talked to advise me. Yeah.

00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:19.999
Said that, it wouldn’t be… Easy. …At all.
We know… we know it won’t be easy

00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:24.999
but you have to get the matriculate in
order to apply for the deferment. And so…

00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:29.999
I can get the matriculate because you need
both of your parents to sign up for you.

00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.999
Yeah. So do we think… Do
you think that… My dad.

00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:39.999
Do you think that he’s at all willing to deal
with it or no, it’s just better than that?

00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:44.999
Not sure.

00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:49.999
Okay. Because we need to get
you some sort of ID fact.

00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:54.999
[sil.]

00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:59.999
When I lived with my dad,

00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:04.999
we never really stayed at one place
for long. We lived in this apartment

00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:09.999
for like about six months
before the raid happened,

00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:14.999
immigration. They were looking for my dad.

00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:19.999
[music]

00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:24.999
He had to settle down and by himself

00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:29.999
somewhere else.

00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.999
And I had to settle down by
myself in the different place.

00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:43.000
[music]

00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:09.999
What if that was the last one.
I was in so hard…

00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:14.999
I wouldn’t let that happen to you. Don’t
worry. You were been so offended.

00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:19.999
I got your back, I got you
chocolate (inaudible)…

00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:28.000
[sil.]

00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:34.999
Everything I need them all, it’s been

00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:39.999
all (inaudible), baby I
can see your head low.

00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:44.999
We won’t fade away.

00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:49.999
[music]

00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:58.000
[sil.]

00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.999
You know, you gotta go out for
the (inaudible) 100 meters.

00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:10.000
(inaudible) girl, how did
you put it up like this.

00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:19.999
‘Cause I’m gonna need another slice.
One of the biggest honors

00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:24.999
is that I get people invite
parents, I mean, grandparents.

00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:29.999
This is my Grandma. Her name is
(inaudible). And this is my mama,

00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:34.999
this is Angela.

00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:39.999
She’s really camera shy though, that’s
how she’s looking at me like that.

00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:44.999
She’s very camera shy. So they
just wanted to get a little film

00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:49.999
of us all together.

00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:54.999
Is this your first time here?

00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:59.999
Yes. Yeah. What do you think? It’s
pretty nice. It can be sticky

00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:04.999
because parents don’t know if you’re
gonna respect them. And for me,

00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:09.999
it’s always a gift to invite
them into the house and they

00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:14.999
are usually surprised, they were normal
and they were not gonna tell them

00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:19.999
about what they should or could or would
deal. The entrance is my (inaudible)

00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:24.999
put a card right there. Imagine
falling from here down.

00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:29.999
It hurt real bad. Thank God
you didn’t break nothin’.

00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:34.999
It didn’t knock any sense up here.
This is like (inaudible) for you.

00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:39.999
Yeah, and you see them all, small and
that my little (inaudible)… (inaudible)…

00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:44.999
I can fit in here. This is… Oh yeah. I
really care… I’ve actually tried it.

00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:49.999
I’ve tried to… You’re really special…
you are the special child, you know.

00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:54.999
I’m not special. Yes, you are.

00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:59.999
[sil.]

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:04.999
To be or not to be,

00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:09.999
that is the question. Said or not said…

00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:14.999
Whether to snow over there in the mind
to suffer the slings and arrows of

00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:19.999
outrageous fortune, or to take
arms against a sea of trouble

00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:24.999
and by opposing in them.

00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:29.999
I need to believe that these thoughts

00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:34.999
are in your mind that you are really

00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:39.999
asking the questions of yourself.
Okay? And so

00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:44.999
what do you wishing for?
To sleep. To… to die.

00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:49.999
Uh-huh? To die because what happens when you die? You sleep,
you sleep and then… You don’t have to worry about anything.

00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:54.999
Right. And what do you saying
you’re ending by doing that.

00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:59.999
Troubles and pins of the real world.

00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:04.999
So all that stuff with
your father and uncle

00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:09.999
and the betrayal of your mother

00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:14.999
would be gone. Yeah.

00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:19.999
Let’s go from

00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:24.999
to die to sleep.

00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:29.999
To die to sleep no more.

00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:34.999
(inaudible).

00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:39.999
And by asleep to say we ended.
The heart ache

00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.999
and a thousand natural shocks
that flesh is heir to.

00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.999
(inaudible)…

00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:58.000
[music]

00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:09.999
(inaudible) grew apart. This was us.

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.999
This were Kanye grew up in. Where was he?

00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.999
Yeah. Green (inaudible). I
remember (inaudible) on the video.

00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:24.999
Always it was like spectator, to observe,

00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.999
not growing up with my father or my
mother, gone to several foster homes,

00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.999
you know, they see your face.
There was some abuse, you know,

00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.999
some sexual, some mental… What!
I’ve been some (inaudible)…

00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.999
You see that? Just go in now.
I’m trying to, man.

00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:49.999
Damn, boy.

00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:54.999
Got the house all toil up, bro.
This was the last place

00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:59.999
that I call it home. It was
another more civilized, you know.

00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:04.999
Damn. This one I got when my
baby mama pregnant (inaudible).

00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:09.999
Oh, (inaudible) this is
where I have my son in…

00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:14.999
[sil.]

00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:19.999
Yeah, this is where I grew up, (inaudible) my
kid… I see right in the basement, you know.

00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:24.999
It was me right here. My room’s window is
right here. Kids room window is right here,

00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:29.999
you know. Yeah, a lot of memories.

00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:34.999
[sil.]

00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:39.999
I’ve been going to the foster homes about
seven and a half years. I was adopted by

00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:44.999
my sister’s father, wish I called him my
stepfather. The first day I was adopted,

00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:49.999
it was at the picnic and I was just
out so myself like in a corner,

00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.999
you know, because I didn’t trust people
and my father he didn’t understand that.

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:59.999
Man. Why… why have you, umm…
embarrass me like this.

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.999
Why you don’t wanna play with other kids. And he like
a… a rack full of keys and he just took the keys

00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.999
and he just started striking in the head, just like,
ah, taking his anger out on me in everything.

00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.999
And never since that day, I kinda like
will drew even more and I was like,

00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:19.999
I don’t like to this guy.

00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.999
It just got worse and as
I started getting older.

00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:29.999
When I come home, he would take the
phone and just (inaudible) to be like,

00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.999
\"If you don’t like the hell is my house, you can
get the fuck out, you don’t have to be here.\"

00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:39.999
And then I would just leave.

00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.999
There was some abandoned building
outside shore, so all night,

00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.999
us, (inaudible) breaking the
wood out the… the window.

00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:54.999
You know, squeezed too
that I got to (inaudible).

00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.999
Man, and it was so hard because I can’t
really sleep because it was so cold.

00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.999
[music]

00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:09.999
I will wake up and get to go
to school in the morning.

00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:14.999
At school, I would take all those
(inaudible) emotions and I will be kinda

00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.999
like the class clown because I just felt like I’m
happy, you know, I want to make other people laugh.

00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:24.999
[music]

00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.999
And then my teachers, they got
to see something wrong with me,

00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.999
you know, I was like be given up
sometimes because so many other things

00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:39.999
I got to think about while I’m asleep when I leave
here, (inaudible) eat, what they (inaudible)…

00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:48.000
[music]

00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:54.999
Have a nice weekend. Be careful.

00:33:55.000 --> 00:34:00.000
[music]

00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:09.999
Do you total list of all the… I do.
…Kids because I want to check one.

00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.999
[sil.]

00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.999
No, she’s not on that. I was wondering
because I just… Hang on, I’m a… Hang on

00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.999
just a bit, okay. She’s been smelling a little
bit, like she walks by and I want to follow up

00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:29.999
that I wasn’t sure. That was one of those situation.
She’s been wearing her gym shirt, I noticed.

00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:34.999
Really. Mm-hmm. And her
hair is clean and stuff

00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:39.999
but like just when she walks by, I could
smell… I don’t… Like maybe she’s taking in…

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:44.999
Laundry issues or something, right. Yeah.
Okay. I’ll follow her up, you know.

00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.999
So let me know if there’s anything I can do it. Whether
she’s in the program or not, it doesn’t matter.

00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:54.999
Right. Most important thing

00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:59.999
I’m trying to do is give them
stability here. And I do everything

00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.999
that I possibly can to enable them to
come to school. I’m going shopping

00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:09.999
this weekend to get shoes at pro-CV(ph).
Okay. I’ll get you like,

00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:14.999
how many (inaudible) do you to think.
My list has grown

00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.999
considerably this year. It… it
just feels a little overwhelming

00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:24.999
because we have… Have a good day. I have
six freshmen. I have eight sophomores.

00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:29.999
I have four juniors and I have 11 seniors.

00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:34.999
Each name represents story

00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:39.999
and it represents a person

00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:44.999
who’s going to be awesome
some day, so that’s list.

00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.999
[sil.]

00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:54.999
Students in Temporary Living Situations.
Hi, Mr. Summers,

00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:59.999
(inaudible).

00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:04.999
Well, 120, 101…

00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:09.999
258, 286 kids, homeless students
that are enrolled at their school.

00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:14.999
They have nowhere to go, then they
fall away from school, they fall out

00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:19.999
under the cracks as what we call, and the school
has so much going on with their other kids,

00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:24.999
our kids get overlooked. I’m… I’m gonna feel
more as soon as that would expect… you know,

00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:29.999
I would get more than last year.
We have liaisons at every school

00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:34.999
but keep in mind, it’s not a paid
position at all. Go in young lady.

00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:39.999
That is clerk then a school nurse, then the
school caseworkers, then the school counselor…

00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:44.999
Liaison called me, it was like,
man these people are really,

00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:49.999
you know, they’re really going through this
stuff. How do we… What do I do to help.

00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:54.999
I love you baby. Do you need passes too?
No. Okay.

00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:59.999
Maybe tomorrow, I’ll see you then. Okay.
There’s been so many days when,

00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.999
you know, raining or cold and getting my car in the
park lot night, look and here’s one of my kids,

00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:09.999
walking down the street. And it occurs
to me where… where are they going?

00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:18.000
[music]

00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:24.999
It’s really, really cold. I think
that need of 16 (inaudible).

00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:30.000
[music]

00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:48.000
[music]

00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:04.999
Hi guys. Guess what? (inaudible)…

00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:09.999
Girl.

00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:14.999
It’s so cold outside so everybody got in.

00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.999
Sometimes we have like almost 40
people and almost 20 people got to go.

00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:28.000
[music]

00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:34.999
You won’t catch me get that (inaudible).

00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:43.000
[music]

00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:54.999
[sil.]

00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:59.999
Today is graduation day.
A long time coming,

00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:04.999
a very long time coming.

00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:09.999
My mom was supposed to be coming,
but I don’t know where she is now.

00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:14.999
My dad was supposed to be coming,
but I don’t know if he is or not

00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:19.999
and my best friend was supposed to be coming
too but I don’t know, if she is or not.

00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:24.999
So it’s pretty much… that’s
gonna be… You guys… Oh Kalvin,

00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:29.999
he’s gonna be there. But today is good day,

00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.999
so I’m not even gonna think
about those (inaudible)…

00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:43.000
[sil.]

00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:49.999
Hey dad. That was my mamma,
she’s trying to figure out

00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:54.999
how she’s gonna get there. Are you ready?

00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:59.999
Okay. ‘Cause I’m telling you, they not gonna
let you in after thing, I mean, you know.

00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.999
Are you telling me that you ain’t
got a bus(ph), car(ph) yesterday,

00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:09.999
could have just left the bus(ph), car(ph)
yesterday. (inaudible). Don’t (inaudible) fat lady.

00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.999
[sil.]

00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:19.999
Oh, don’t… Ma, don’t play me.

00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.999
Today not is not the day. Today
is not the day, don’t do it.

00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:29.999
She got pissed me out and she do not come.
I’m gonna be highly upset.

00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:34.999
I like Kasey, Kasey is so cool.

00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:39.999
She is not sweating, she is not worried.
We gonna get it done. Yeah.

00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:48.000
[music]

00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:13.000
[music]

00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:49.999
Huh? It’s working out.

00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:54.999
Mom showed up at the graduation.
(inaudible).

00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:59.999
I’m (inaudible) happy going through this.

00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:04.999
They gonna do it. Yeah.

00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:09.999
[sil.]

00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:14.999
Hi.

00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:19.999
[sil.]

00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:24.999
Hey. Hi. I know. Yeah.

00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.999
I really thought he would want
more privacy and so initially

00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:34.999
I had them stay in the basement. But Roque didn’t
want to be down there by himself. He wanted to be

00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:39.999
up here with us and we’ll never know

00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:44.999
if there was a raccoon but I’m gonna say
there was not a raccoon in the basement.

00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:49.999
And that Roque wanted to be closer
to the family, which was fine.

00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:54.999
Is that (inaudible) homework?

00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.999
Due on Friday.

00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:04.999
The big struggles the shear
is trying to be able to

00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:09.999
go to college.

00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:14.999
My GPA is a 1.66. Okay.
Everyone find the space

00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:19.999
onstage please. Get yourself
into your confident position.

00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:24.999
I hope that I could tell
the college the stories

00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.999
I have and I have a lot to tell.

00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.999
I hope they…

00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:39.999
they see the change in
grades that I am starting to

00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:44.999
climb back up. I’m not… I’m not

00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:49.999
just ready to give it up.

00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:58.000
[music]

00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:04.999
Oh God, (inaudible)

00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:09.999
what a wounded name?
(inaudible) left behind me.

00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:14.999
(inaudible) just hold me and die heart,

00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:19.999
draw thy breathe in pain to tell my story.

00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:24.999
Oh my God (inaudible)…

00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:29.999
The rest, the silence…

00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:38.000
[sil.]

00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:49.999
(inaudible)…

00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:54.999
So two days before the test. Yeah.
How you feeling? Confident.

00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:59.999
Okay. Yeah. Well, not this (inaudible).

00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.999
Did you even put some study time? And I… I ain’t
get to study, but I have gone through yesterday.

00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:09.999
Well… I just happened to go
to Indiana to see my son.

00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:14.999
It was like three hours out there, three hours
back, was out there for three hours so…

00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:20.000
Go back to 46. So this is the one.

00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:29.999
Without… no parking.

00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:34.999
No parking, well, the task was
made to watching the (inaudible),

00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:39.999
a single story retell in
(inaudible) without, no parking

00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:44.999
or that means without… without parking.
Or (inaudible).

00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:49.999
I’m thinking about keeping this
one as number one. (inaudible).

00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:58.000
[music]

00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:14.999
Anyway the better.

00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:19.999
[music]

00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:24.999
Anthony Lynch(ph), bro, your seat number 5.
Daniel Johnson…

00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:29.999
[music]

00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:34.999
[sil.]

00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:39.999
Hard work, being the birthday boy.

00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:44.999
I don’t know when my dad’s gonna get here.

00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:49.999
Hey, (inaudible).

00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:58.000
Okay bye. Yeah, they’re coming.

00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:09.999
We were trying to get

00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:14.999
my matriculate card. It’s a process to give

00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:19.999
me like a state ID that would
just like let me work.

00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:24.999
If you’re under 18, you have to
take both of your parents fair

00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:29.999
and since my dad doesn’t, like I
asked him to do it, he wouldn’t…

00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:34.999
he wasn’t he like didn’t feel
comfortable doing it, which I was okay.

00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:40.000
[sil.]

00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:58.000
[sil.]

00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:14.999
That’s it man, blow candles.

00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:19.999
In French. Wait! Make a wish!

00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:24.999
Are you sure you want that wish?
Roque, are you sure?

00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:29.999
Not that one. Okay, now
we all know you are.

00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:34.999
All right, fine, you’re right now though. Now that
I am 18 to get on the matriculate, I have to do it

00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:39.999
by myself now. A far better place to be at

00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:44.999
and just being invisible.

00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:53.000
[music]

00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:19.999
I tell my papers (inaudible)…

00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:24.999
saying Halloween. Yeah,

00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:29.999
in (inaudible)… This journey is
epic, a one time impression,

00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:34.999
I probably (inaudible) just called ditches.

00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:39.999
Man, that’s my favorite. …Already for
my name to be in the Hall of Fame,

00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:44.999
be dreaming, (inaudible), trying
to go out the (inaudible).

00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:49.999
Again, she loves me, she loves (inaudible).
Now it just holding my heart (inaudible).

00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.999
Again. Again, going through stuff

00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:59.999
my girlfriend lately, and is my… I
gotta stop focusing on the stuff,

00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.999
that really doesn’t matter at the time.

00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:09.999
Just a lot of (inaudible) stuff that
doesn’t have to do with me actually,

00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:14.999
make it something that myself.
You know, what I’m saying like…

00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:19.999
From what I can see now,
I wanna go to school,

00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:24.999
I definitely gotta get into school. I haven’t
decided on what school I wanna go to yet.

00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:29.999
But lately, I just been

00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:34.999
really off. It mixes in with
my anxiety and everything

00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:39.999
it just… It just like boom!

00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:44.999
And I’ve been doing that a lot.

00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:49.999
As far as coping with
my emotional stability,

00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:54.999
I smoke a lot. It melts me out.
Man, smoking made me feel good.

00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:59.999
People don’t understand it like, (inaudible), I’ve been
like, no. It calms me down, especially, when I’m in

00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:05.000
a rage moment, it just like… it
brings me down to a lower level.

00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:24.999
Because all this shit is ruining
me, I learning to behave.

00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:29.999
Still spending every dollar
that encouraged me to save.

00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:34.999
Everything that I’ve been working on, trying
to find what (inaudible), trying to finish

00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:39.999
my GED and do everything
that closer to my side.

00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:44.999
Tonight, I get a step closer.

00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:49.999
I never have… have my own crib before, and
this is like my opportunity to give my all,

00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:55.000
you know, my…

00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:09.999
Yep. Where do I sit? You sit over
here, we have side seats. Okay.

00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:14.999
How you doing? I’m doing good.

00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:19.999
You look nice. Thank you.

00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:24.999
Well, we want to welcome you to the (inaudible)
interviewing process. You have reached

00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:29.999
sort of this milestone, which is a place that
not all of your peers are gonna get to you.

00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:34.999
We’re gonna ask you some questions,
uh… personal growth, life skills…

00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:43.000
[music]

00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:04.999
I want to welcome everyone

00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:09.999
to graduation ceremony this
evening, honoree Anthony Lynch(ph),

00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:14.999
who is going into (inaudible)
from Belfort, okay.

00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:19.999
We (inaudible) just conversation.

00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:24.999
We were saying how like
collectively everybody came

00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:29.999
to his house for a reason. After
like me, you connected on a level

00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:34.999
that was higher than human comprehension.
When our (inaudible) like

00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:39.999
having a bad day or something like that, we’ll sit down,
we’ll talk, you’ll flip that negative energy turning into

00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:44.999
some (inaudible). You have to personally
that presidential candidates need to be.

00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:49.999
[sil.]

00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:54.999
So I gotta tell you all
that Anthony Lynch(ph)

00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:59.999
is a real ass hole, like he
really is… He… he is one of

00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:04.999
the coolest people I’ve ever… ever… ever
met in the house. This man got two jobs,

00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:09.999
working on his GED and
trying to get his child.

00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:14.999
Now what kind of… (inaudible)…

00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:19.999
Right. Right. If I was straight
I would marry this man.

00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:24.999
[sil.]

00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:29.999
I say I’m good though (inaudible) in the
growth. I need a growth. This is my

00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:34.999
G-O-D, man. You honestly.

00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:39.999
I got some words to say to everybody.

00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:44.999
I felt like I always in (inaudible) since I
was loving and I found that was (inaudible)

00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:49.999
to be a king is ready to be a servant because you
gotta serve your whole travel(ph) or whatever

00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:54.999
you have got it. I mean, you’ll got that
defense working just as well as anybody else.

00:54:55.000 --> 00:54:59.999
And I wish I was rather could be
here but sometimes you always say,

00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.999
we all got the day with destiny. May the road
rise to meet you. May road rise to meet you.

00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:09.999
May the wind be always at your back.
May the wind be always at your back.

00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:14.999
May the sunshine warm upon your face.
May the sunshine

00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:19.999
warm upon your face. And the rains fall

00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:24.999
softly upon your head. And the rains fall softly upon your
head. And until we meet again… And until we meet again…

00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:29.999
…May you be held safely in the hands
of love. …May you be held safely

00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:34.999
in the hands of love. And all the people
say… And all the people say, Amen.

00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:43.000
[sil.]

00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:53.000
[music]

00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:59.999
Hello. Hi Kasey. We got your texts
that you’re not at Belfort any more,

00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:04.999
and just wanted to see how you were and
see what’s happening in your life.

00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:09.999
Well, I had to leave Belfort House

00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:14.999
because of curfew violations.
And my momma was really mad

00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:19.999
when I got kicked out. I just
sleep on the couch over there

00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:24.999
or spend a couple of nights
at one of my friend’s houses.

00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:29.999
I get $200 in stamps to get groceries with.

00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:34.999
I can’t give you no money, but I can
put some food in your refrigerator.

00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:39.999
I just come in when it’s almost
time for me to go to sleep.

00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:44.999
It’s pretty much like that.

00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:53.000
[music]

00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:13.000
[sil.]

00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:24.999
(inaudible)

00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:29.999
memories good.

00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:34.999
I know, today we’re not gonna be here

00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:39.999
in this crib no more, so we have to at
least be thankful for what we have.

00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:44.999
Here is where I made my family.

00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:49.999
[music]

00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:54.999
I’m thankful there was
a place like the crib

00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:59.999
for people like us to, you know, not
be judged not be… not be knocked down,

00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:04.999
not to be pushed around just because, you
know, we’re just because we’re younger.

00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:09.999
This shelter is that you don’t get what
you get here. Being gay is hard as hell

00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:14.999
and it’s matter of (inaudible) migraine
ourself and everything’s to other shelters,

00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:19.999
potentially getting all type of bad treatment. You
(inaudible) say because and then what happened,

00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:24.999
box themselves back in, in order to feel
comfortable to have fucking place to sleep,

00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:29.999
you know, what I’m saying. It’s normal stuff
you gotta do to be home, it’s just ridiculous.

00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:34.999
[music]

00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:39.999
I have been trying really
hard for a long time

00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:44.999
to eradicate youth homelessness,
and it’s not working

00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:49.999
but sometimes it works for a few
minutes for a few young people,

00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:54.999
you know. It’s the right thing to do
to be with someone and welcome them

00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:59.999
and support them, even if that’s
all you can do in that moment.

00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:04.999
You know, it’s really hard to explain that to
people who are so obsessed without commanders

00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:09.999
and expect that we’re gonna give a
young person a sandwich and then

00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:14.999
immediately they’re gonna live independently
in their own apartment and get a job

00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:19.999
and complete college and enroll in therapy

00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:24.999
and never smoke pot again. For
the most part, those things

00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:30.000
don’t immediately stemmed from the
delivery of a sandwich to a person.

00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:48.000
[music]

01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:09.999
Good night everybody. Good night.

01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:14.999
[sil.]

01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:20.000
[music]

01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:35.000
[music]

01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:54.999
[music]

01:01:55.000 --> 01:01:59.999
This hospital is bored.

01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:04.999
I’ve been here for almost two days now.

01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:09.999
And I don’t know what’s going on.

01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:15.000
[music]

01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:33.000
[sil.]

01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:39.999
What’s up, man? (inaudible)…
How you doing, man?

01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:44.999
This what’s going on.
Ah, this was the place.

01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:49.999
(inaudible) not that big but it’s…
it’s enough room for just me.

01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:54.999
And uh… and I got a cool… a cool alarm
systems. See, like when I open that.

01:02:55.000 --> 01:02:59.999
It makes this like… Nice.

01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:04.999
Kitchen door. Yeah, it’s pretty
cool, right. How’s life?

01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:09.999
Just being coming along, this work pretty slow right
now because, you know, it’s right (inaudible)

01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:14.999
so the (inaudible) been slowdown (inaudible) down the year,
but they should be picking back up next month. That’s cool.

01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:19.999
Are you doing the dishwashing? Umm…
No, I have (inaudible)… I’m keep job,

01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:24.999
it’s like, if I can get into Year Up, and just
spend that year, it’s like developing my skills,

01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:29.999
you know, like communication, like speaking
and writing, you know, presentation. Right.

01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:34.999
But I was thinking about the process
with my son. It might be (inaudible)

01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:39.999
for me to get up, so it’s basically that
gonna be so you’re a suitable parent.

01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:44.999
How much… have you met the foster parents
when you… Umm… She seemed pretty cool

01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:49.999
but we just have to focus her, that’s what because…
kinda like basically he’s conscious on the (inaudible),

01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:54.999
so he’s kinda like, you know, like…

01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:59.999
Right. Right. You know, my mom (inaudible). You
know like… Right. How… how is he responding to you.

01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:04.999
Oh, not coming around like (inaudible) not playing
with his toys and everything, so he’s pretty cool.

01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:09.999
I just can’t wait to… I get a visitation,
he would come to the (inaudible).

01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:14.999
Well, won’t you gonna be a pretty role
model, man, as you probably already know.

01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:19.999
Just trying… Man, he’s ready. I’m
just trying to be ready for…

01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:28.000
[sil.]

01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:39.999
[sil.]

01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:44.999
You ever has (inaudible) anthologies that class
is gonna be boring, and I’m just saying this.

01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:49.999
But if you look in the book section, look,
who’s got novels and then which ones.

01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:54.999
We can go in there and look. It’s my favorite.
Yeah. But yeah, that’s so you can tell,

01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:59.999
who’s got an interesting
class and who doesn’t.

01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:04.999
And this jobs, which
will happen eventually.

01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:09.999
Yeah.

01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:14.999
I think that you should go in there and ask if
they have anything for like undocumented student.

01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:19.999
Like what? I don’t know. See what
they have. They… do they have

01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:24.999
any information for you.

01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:29.999
Okay. Go.

01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:34.999
All right. (inaudible), I wanted to ask you
if there’s anything I should know about,

01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:39.999
like since I’m a undocumented student.
So this is super important

01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:44.999
because I can’t always be
there and Roque has to able

01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:49.999
to talk to people, go into offices

01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:54.999
and these are things that his family has avoided like
the plague his entire life. So doing anything official,

01:05:55.000 --> 01:05:59.999
putting your name on anything official is a really
big deal, even if it’s only asking for information,

01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:04.999
so this for him is really uncomfortable
and he looks like he wants to throw up,

01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:09.999
but I’m having a very good time because it’s
kind of a very good first official step.

01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:14.999
And he can do it. Thank you.

01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:19.999
You welcome. You… you’re good to go.
The lady said that

01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:24.999
my… my ACT scores were really good,
and she was really happy with them.

01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:29.999
Yeah. Coming out of the city school
at 20 is a really good score.

01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:34.999
What’s going on? Hi. How are you? I’m good.

01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:39.999
I really want to go to college either
for psychology or theater arts.

01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:44.999
But like my GPA right
now is like really low.

01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:49.999
How low is the GPA? The last
time I checked, it was…

01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:54.999
it was the last quarter’s
one, it was 1.6. 1.6. Yeah.

01:06:55.000 --> 01:06:59.999
I’m not sure what our baseline GPA here is.
I know it’s not extraordinarily high.

01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:04.999
The applicant must have an overall see
average in which I think would be a 2.0,

01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:09.999
so it seems like it’s an issue. So the question
is will admissions just look at the number

01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:14.999
or will they take into consideration
what you did in later years?

01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:19.999
Here admission through petition. Undergraduate
applications wherein… I didn’t even know this existed,

01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:24.999
because I haven’t read this book. Undergraduate applicants who
are not granted admission may submitted emission portfolio

01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:29.999
for reconsideration. Oh, I feel
confident we can get you in.

01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:34.999
Well, I feel great about that.

01:07:35.000 --> 01:07:43.000
[sil.]

01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:50.000
Damn! That’s a big ass bag. Shit!

01:07:55.000 --> 01:07:59.999
Yeah, I never thought I would end up in a mental
institution, that is one place I never thought

01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:04.999
I would end up, so little piece
in me that’s different now.

01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:09.999
[sil.]

01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:14.999
I think that’s a…

01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:19.999
Hey, that’s my granny. I
need to move that paper.

01:08:20.000 --> 01:08:24.999
Get that paper off. All of them.

01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:33.000
[sil.]

01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:39.999
Come on. Got all your stuff outta here?

01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:45.000
Yeah. I’m gonna put you out.
You ain’t puttin’ me nowhere.

01:08:55.000 --> 01:08:59.999
So have you like, this is the best news
as I get out as I got out of hospital,

01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:04.999
like you don’t even know.

01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:09.999
[sil.]

01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:14.999
I’m not used to not being south.

01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:19.999
It’s about maybe an hour and
45 minute ride from here.

01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:24.999
[music]

01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:29.999
Feels like I’m on my way

01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:34.999
to LA or some…

01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:39.999
I’m feeling like a big person right
now, I feel like a real big person.

01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:48.000
[music]

01:09:55.000 --> 01:09:59.999
It’s my dad.

01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:08.000
[music]

01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:19.999
The lighter is on stove
(inaudible)… The burners?

01:10:20.000 --> 01:10:24.999
The burner… the burner is the gas, they turn
on but the ignition starts (inaudible)…

01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:29.999
Well, they say they get all that fixed and
you… and it’s gonna be some couches and chairs

01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:34.999
because I’m going TV, it’s gonna be decent.
We just got a regulated for a minute,

01:10:35.000 --> 01:10:39.999
we just get in there, we got plans, we just… we just
got to make it work. We just gotta make it work.

01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:44.999
[sil.]

01:10:45.000 --> 01:10:49.999
Okay. I think that’s it, that’s it. Oh, she
said, she… she gave you a copy and the key.

01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:54.999
Oh, thank you. Cool. All right.

01:10:55.000 --> 01:10:59.999
Ah, I need to find somewhere to put this.
And this my mind room,

01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:04.999
my room, the most important
part of the house.

01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:09.999
’Cause it’s mine. Backyard.
It’s a back yard.

01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:14.999
Home.

01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:19.999
(inaudible)

01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:24.999
Yeah, you will have to get that fixed that.

01:11:25.000 --> 01:11:29.999
This is interesting to me. I even
have to do it myself right now.

01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:38.000
[sil.]

01:11:40.000 --> 01:11:48.000
[music]

01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:54.999
I’m gonna put this one down, this is my bed
(inaudible), I love this cover for some reason.

01:11:55.000 --> 01:11:59.999
And I know, it’s gonna fit my bed ‘cause this,
that’s how I cover. I’m gonna lay down right down

01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:04.999
again gonna put this little cover

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(inaudible)…

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This is actually comfortable laying off.
I actually like this comfort.

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[music]

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This is probably how I’m going to sleep.

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[music]

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I have a feeling, just (inaudible).

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I’m definitely gonna put
something on that window though.

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[sil.]

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Open the letter.

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For the past month, we have been
waiting on pins and needles

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to see what the answer from
Northeastern was gonna be.

01:13:05.000 --> 01:13:13.000
[sil.]

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You gonna open one day when you’re old.

01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:24.999
[sil.]

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It’s a… …a \"no\".

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So we do have to do something…

01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:39.999
All right. So I’m glad, we opened it.
I think that today,

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you should call to him.

01:13:45.000 --> 01:13:49.999
[sil.]

01:13:50.000 --> 01:13:54.999
You did your all (inaudible) sensational
already. Actually, yeah, we did it. We did it.

01:13:55.000 --> 01:13:59.999
I got… I did my drive one today, but I’m need your
email, I mean, small information I want to send to.

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All right. All right.
Well, see you tomorrow.

01:14:10.000 --> 01:14:14.999
Oh, your outlook quiz, you are
sending me a meeting request

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and we’re gonna have this meeting every
Thursday for the entire month of February.

01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:24.999
The ninth and the tenth. There was (inaudible)
occurring for rest the year, right?

01:14:25.000 --> 01:14:29.999
Oh, I got it too.

01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:34.999
That’s not how you send messages.
Year Up’s everything I expected.

01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:39.999
Starting here with zero
technical knowledge,

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now I’m probably like a
third way, you know,

01:14:45.000 --> 01:14:49.999
I’m… I’m doing high. It’s kinda
difficult because I got so much

01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:54.999
other stuff going on, like work,
about my son. I really haven’t made

01:14:55.000 --> 01:14:59.999
any content with him since I’ve been a Year Up, that
he’s walking now, you know. So he’s eating meat now,

01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:04.999
you know, I… I miss him
now like but… (inaudible)

01:15:05.000 --> 01:15:09.999
Anthony will be in maintaining his professionalism
at all times, not just in the classroom

01:15:10.000 --> 01:15:14.999
while being spaces like that.
Oh, well, no ma’am.

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I just… I mean, I know it trying to get us ready for the corporate
America but I’m not allow with corporate… corporate America that much.

01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:24.999
Yeah. …You know, like… It’s
a hard… it’s a hard balance

01:15:25.000 --> 01:15:29.999
to write because you don’t wanna lose yourself and your
identity, right and become just kind of this corporate…

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I think… I think that’s kinda like what’s special about
me. You tell many to start being more professional way,

01:15:35.000 --> 01:15:39.999
outside it means in group
(inaudible) chilling

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and without them. I’m black.
Man. That’s it.

01:15:45.000 --> 01:15:49.999
This is no secret.

01:15:50.000 --> 01:15:55.000
Yeah. That’s going collar (inaudible) not.
No. (inaudible).

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It’s a baby tie.

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[music]

01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:14.999
Thank you.

01:16:15.000 --> 01:16:20.000
(inaudible). One, two, three.

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Five interesting facts about
our company is that we have

01:16:45.000 --> 01:16:49.999
umm… expanded to Australia and Thailand.
We have worked with many other companies

01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:54.999
such as Accenture, we got this…

01:16:55.000 --> 01:16:59.999
Pleasure me to. Nice to meet you… Anthony,
(inaudible) it’s a pleasure to meet you.

01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:04.999
Nice to meet you (inaudible).

01:17:05.000 --> 01:17:09.999
The team, that is representing the company,

01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:14.999
that we have a corporate partnership with

01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:19.999
and then you may or may not be able to go on
internship that and then maybe after that

01:17:20.000 --> 01:17:24.999
if you do really well like
(inaudible) work there (inaudible)…

01:17:25.000 --> 01:17:29.999
[sil.]

01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:34.999
Good job. Good job.

01:17:35.000 --> 01:17:43.000
[music]

01:17:50.000 --> 01:17:54.999
Hello. How is going here?

01:17:55.000 --> 01:17:59.999
[sil.]

01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:04.999
Ruby? Oh my God, it’s been
so well, how you been?

01:18:05.000 --> 01:18:09.999
I want like get you more focused on your
goals and what you need to be doing.

01:18:10.000 --> 01:18:14.999
One of the biggest thing is like,

01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:19.999
umm… what I’m always been kind of
fancy you are is that resources

01:18:20.000 --> 01:18:24.999
are limited and so that’s
what our employment,

01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:29.999
employment, employment because we will
aren’t be able to supply you our bus cards

01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:34.999
and different things… Are funds being cut?
We’re getting that (inaudible) of people

01:18:35.000 --> 01:18:39.999
that needs our… and so we’re
trying make sure that everybody

01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:44.999
gets something. Right now, I
want to switch gears and I want

01:18:45.000 --> 01:18:49.999
for you all to tell me what you’re doing.
As far as school,

01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:54.999
I wasn’t able to do a whole semester because I had
a hold on my account when I tried to register.

01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:59.999
What else is going on? That backdoor
like really need to get fixed.

01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:04.999
What’s wrong with that? We
don’t… when Ruby locked her self

01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:09.999
out last time, the (inaudible) board
never been fixed in the, and…

01:19:10.000 --> 01:19:14.999
Well, Ruby broke the door
essentially, so that’s the issue.

01:19:15.000 --> 01:19:23.000
[sil.]

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I don’t really sleep in the night.
I’ll be like why do I…

01:19:30.000 --> 01:19:34.999
I get anxious. And be like,
Oh my God, it’s so silent.

01:19:35.000 --> 01:19:39.999
[sil.]

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[music]

01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:04.999
[sil.]

01:20:05.000 --> 01:20:09.999
There it is.

01:20:10.000 --> 01:20:14.999
Dear Roque, congratulations on your mission
to Northeastern Illinois University.

01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:19.999
I thought I wasn’t in, but I’m in there.
When we got the no letter.

01:20:20.000 --> 01:20:24.999
I immediately texted Tim at Northeastern
and so Tim went from office to office,

01:20:25.000 --> 01:20:29.999
like I want to see this kid’s record
and it was a mistake. They didn’t have

01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:34.999
his most recent score up. If they
get some letter that’s wrong,

01:20:35.000 --> 01:20:39.999
you don’t have that person, who knows and
understands how all those things work,

01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:44.999
then you’re done. I was really
heartbroken and that… like, yeah.

01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:49.999
If you do things be persistent,
things can go right.

01:20:50.000 --> 01:20:54.999
He can do that for somebody else now
because he sees how powerful that is.

01:20:55.000 --> 01:20:59.999
[sil.]

01:21:00.000 --> 01:21:04.999
What he wants to stay here? I
think so as long as everyone

01:21:05.000 --> 01:21:09.999
is fine with it. I’m fine. Girls like it,

01:21:10.000 --> 01:21:14.999
I think if he goes and girls
are gonna be sad, you know.

01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:19.999
A long time ago I told them like, I don’t need
anything from you, we want you here because

01:21:20.000 --> 01:21:24.999
we want to help you and that’s our goal.
And then a few months ago, I told umm…

01:21:25.000 --> 01:21:29.999
I need to rephrase what I said to you before because I was
thinking about it, like I am extremely grateful to you

01:21:30.000 --> 01:21:34.999
and I do need you. I need for you to be

01:21:35.000 --> 01:21:39.999
a part of my family, like you’re not just somebody I don’t have
an empty room, I’m just waiting to fill out the time right.

01:21:40.000 --> 01:21:44.999
Like this room is for you.
This is where you go

01:21:45.000 --> 01:21:49.999
and that’s different.

01:21:50.000 --> 01:21:54.999
I’ll do it right now, okay. You know, you’re
trying to do the right thing by people

01:21:55.000 --> 01:21:59.999
and you hope that they understand the
commitment that you’re making to them.

01:22:00.000 --> 01:22:04.999
You’d have to give it freely right,
but I wanted him to know that

01:22:05.000 --> 01:22:09.999
he is giving back just as much
to our family. (inaudible)…

01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:18.000
[music]

01:22:30.000 --> 01:22:34.999
I gotta liking for technology now because I
didn’t know nothing about it before Year Up.

01:22:35.000 --> 01:22:39.999
[music]

01:22:40.000 --> 01:22:44.999
I see my life totally different,
I really like a new me,

01:22:45.000 --> 01:22:49.999
so I’m just trying to like get rid all of the things that
gonna hold me back like, that doesn’t fit me anymore,

01:22:50.000 --> 01:22:54.999
so if there’s like old friends that doesn’t help
support, get to… I’m trying to go and it’s kinda like,

01:22:55.000 --> 01:22:59.999
I gotta let them go because I meeting a lot of new people like
a hell. You know, I (inaudible) where I really want to be.

01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:04.999
[music]

01:23:05.000 --> 01:23:09.999
So I’m… I’m loving it really.

01:23:10.000 --> 01:23:15.000
Like I like being… I wish you guys was here right
now, so I could be working… working, you know.

01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:29.999
Doing good. I just woke up. I’ve been
trying to get on my things and stuff.

01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:34.999
I know I got a long way
to go, so do it but,

01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:40.000
you know, it’s a process.

01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:58.000
[music]

01:24:25.000 --> 01:24:29.999
It’s not that far, it looks
far but it’s not that far.

01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:34.999
We’ll go to a service house,

01:24:35.000 --> 01:24:40.000
last time I did my card doesn’t work.

01:24:55.000 --> 01:25:00.000
[music]

01:25:10.000 --> 01:25:14.999
Do you need any school supplies or anything ‘cause
I have a whole camp refill, if you (inaudible)…

01:25:15.000 --> 01:25:19.999
See you later.

01:25:20.000 --> 01:25:24.999
Hi, you.

01:25:25.000 --> 01:25:30.000
[music]

01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:44.999
[music]

01:25:45.000 --> 01:25:50.000
[sil.]

01:29:20.000 --> 01:29:25.000
[sil.]