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🗓️ 6 May 2024
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0:00.0 | Yo, today's Q-O-D is, there's almost nothing that we cannot come back from. |
0:06.0 | Here we go. Oh, Welcome back to the quarter of the Day show. I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton. |
0:36.5 | Happy Monday to you my friend. Hope you had a really good weekend. We're going to start this week off with an inspiring story, a comeback story. If you've been going through something or you've been through something and you're thinking maybe I'll just give up or you've already given up. This is the perfect |
0:55.2 | clip for you to start the week because no matter what you've been through, no matter what you're going through, |
1:00.8 | like you got to know that there's pretty much nothing that you can't come back from. |
1:06.1 | And when you think about your situation and you hear the situation and the story that Michael's going to tell, |
1:12.1 | I think you'll realize that you can come back from |
1:14.5 | whatever you're going through as long as you're willing to take responsibility, as long as you're |
1:18.7 | willing to take action and make it happen. Michael Wickett's coming up. |
1:28.6 | One of the most incredible stories that I've ever heard is a man named Charles Dutton. He was born into the housing projects of East Baltimore, poor black. |
1:35.0 | He was a grade school dropout. |
1:38.0 | He killed a man in a knife fight. |
1:40.0 | Went to prison for five years for manslaughter. |
1:43.0 | A few years later he got out on parole, he was caught with a dangerous weapon, |
1:48.0 | he was sent back to prison, and then he got eight more years for assaulting a guard. |
1:52.0 | He was the most violent prisoner in the largest prison in Maryland, |
1:56.0 | so they put him in solitary confinement. |
1:58.0 | Solitary confinement is a dark, cold, stark cell five by seven and he lived in a five by seven room |
2:08.6 | solitarily away from everybody. No future. One day an old girlfriend sent him a play, Day of |
2:16.6 | Absence and he read that play and something happened. And Charles Dutton discovered a purpose for his life. |
2:24.8 | He said that he got totally absorbed in that play and he literally left the room |
2:30.1 | as he began to feel what he wanted to do with his life and he knew right there in that little cell that he wanted to act. |
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