Produced by the I Lab at W-B-U-R, Boston.

Welcome to Kind World.

I'm Andrea Aswahi.

And I'm Yasminammer.

Andrea, we talk a lot about stories of redemption,

people who have struggled and worked through their circumstances

to rise beyond anyone's expectations.

I've got a story this week that illustrates just that.

When 40-year-old Quinton's story looks back on his life, there are some

chapters he'd like to forget. He'd prefer to reflect on his early life, growing up

in Florida, surrounded by family, music, and faith.

My childhood was very, very religious.

I was raised in the church and I was always in church services.

I was involved in sports, baseball, basketball, basically just a happy

normal childhood. But when Quentin was 10, his family life started to unravel.

His parents divorced.

He couldn't reconcile their separation with his Christian beliefs.

As a teenager, he started smoking pot and the wrong crowd started making a deeper impression on him.

Once I graduated high school and got my diploma, everyone around me, all of my classmates,

were like, let's get drunk let's just you know

party and I started to doing that and that was like my biggest downfall that was the

worst thing ever happened to me was for me to pick up a train.

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