Friday, May 4, 2012

Through hell and back: Never lose hope


Diane Dixon-Davies, Centurion Staff
April 11, 2012
Filed under Student LifeTop Stories
George, 40, of Levittown, sits on a red recliner in his apartment above a deli in Bristol Township. He’s smoking a Marlboro cigarette and gazing out the window. The place is modest, but neat. As is he, in his blonde, crew cut and simple but neat sweatpants and white T-shirt. Lines have formed around his worn blue eyes and he looks older.
It has taken 22 years for George to reach this point, to find this place, to find a home. He’s taken a road longer and harder than most, but, for now at least, he’s made it. He’s broken a lifelong addiction to drugs. He’s found himself.

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