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

Welcome to Kind World.

I'm Yasmin Ammer.

And I'm Andrea Aswajay. Kindness can be found anywhere and everywhere and

and we've found so much kindness and compassion happening in schools. Yep it

reminds me of a southern saying you have the heart of a teacher.

It's someone who goes out of their way to help make someone's day just a little better.

Exactly. Well, this week we've got a story about one Boston teacher who changed a student's life through books.

I was always tied to it. I would do things. I would have a life, but I would go home and I'd sleep

ten hours and I couldn't do anything else. I didn't tell anybody. I always kept it myself. I just, I was

the pale kid who stutter in high school, so I didn't want any other added bonus points against me.

I read a lot to escape.

My sophomore year at Domomsa, in East Boston, English teacher. Mr. Sullivan, we called

him celery back then. You call me a wise guy because I'd be on point during the book

discussions. I always had some smart, okay way that put things and something like that.

He was probably the best teacher I've ever had, the most lasting, and I remember this class totally. He kept it fun. He would do

imitations of like Charlie Chaplin. He would do the John Dillinger with a

Tommy gun and then he'd take the bullets and the class would laugh.

From what I learned to him that I could live through these characters and I can have these adventures and I can do great things like through the author's words.

From birth, I was prescribed Prendisome.

It was a steroid drug, so that's how I managed our whole life.

There was a point where the apprentices don't stopped working.

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