Thomas Murphy

So I would say if people say to me, like, what are the common threads?

There's a whole bunch of other things that young people, that kid Dan, and I can give you a thousand other stories of other struggles, but those are the two big ones.

Sure.

Well, you know, when you look at a young person who's struggling,

the one thing that they're struggling with is that hopelessness.

So they need hope.

And if you think every time you struggled in life, someone came into your life and gave you that hope that they were carrying with them.

And we believe, we know that every single person has that hope inside of them.

If my partner Rick was here right now, he'd tell you the most beautiful story.

You know, he was, I'll give you the very short condensed version of this one because it's a showstopper.

He gets out of the hospital a year into recovery.

He looks like a monster.

Every kid's running from him, literally in public.

He goes to this restaurant with his brother in San Antonio where he was doing his recovery for three years.

Sits down at a table.

Little girl across the room with her grandpa.

And grandpa says, go say hi to him.

Go say hi to him.

Grandpa forces her.

She gets about halfway over, looks at Rick, and he says, hi, how you doing?