I grew up in Uniontown, PA, 50 miles from here.

I didn't have my mother and father to raise me.

I went to school 14 years, and, we got to make room.

I was a 14 year old.

Ended up in homestead in the mill.

And I worked in the mill for 14 years.

I'm going to gain 25 pounds.

And the doctor says that, I'd have to, be discharged from the mill, to be out in of the mill.

He gave me just a very short while to live.

I got on the street, and started hustlin, and all like that, and I went to work for a doctor.

Take off the weight.

And I took off 125 pounds in six months time.

But psychologically, I was addicted to the drug, to the needle, which I was shooting at 15, 16 times a day.

Let's be.

I came to this park, this very park for a day, and I was very depressed.

And, this is about eight about seven, eight years ago.

And, I was very down and I ran into a lot of young people who were also down at that time.

Consequently, they found out that, I was older than what they were.

And, I had had experiences of street life and, overcoming different obstacles and problems and mostly most of all depressions.

I figured after a while, it's time that, you know, I started to listen to somebody because I was just going downhill and, you know, getting high and stuff and not really caring about anything.

So I just figured, you know, I should listen to you.

Even though I had a spiritual belief, a religious beliefs, which, I am a follower and believer of Jesus Christ.

But a lot of these kids didn't have any belief or anything like that, and I didn't try to turn them on, by preaching to them or anything like that.

I mean, I think we were all searching for love.

Is that right?

Well, I started going down there for a while, and I started to get involved in some of their activities and and like, we went out to Duquesne Hospital, and you get involved with people like the old people, and they'll help me get a job.

And it's just, you know, it's been a big change for me in the past couple of years.

See, I got busted and he helped me get out.

And it's really been a big change in that way.

You know, I've learned to take responsibility now.

Something I didn't do about 3 or 4 years ago.

So how many things do you get involved in?

What would you do?

Most of all is built up a trust, try to build up a trust.

So it's not.

We don't have a place here where people sit up here and play ping pong and, shoot dice or or play cards all day long or something like that.

We have a bridge here to carry you over your troubled waters.

Many of you specifically this year has been kind of difficult for us to, operate because we've been so constrained by the campus activities.

And that's a real problem for a student organization.

Like the students themselves, you know?

Many of these college people that work with us, I don't say all of them, but many of them are away from their homes.

And they are, not only strangers in the town.

They're they're treated as strangers.

When I go up or any of us usually go up and start talking to them and ask them to get involved in helping other people like themselves right away, they want to do it.

They're people in a higher capacity, supposedly in relationship to society and instruction.

Okay, now we come in here saying, and I'm trying to get a better education so I can get a better job fill my money up with, my pockets, up with money and everything, and I can walk out and be a big man.

Hey.

How are you.

All right, all right.

All right.

Hey, you know, we're going to just.

Thanks.

I mean, the Valentine's festival, where they go.

You know, we had the Thanksgiving festival already right?

Getting this thing together, you know, from the middle of college.

You know the Jewish community center in Oakland?

You know, hey, I need all of you folks to help me like you did before.

You know, since you remember the you city and also Hades and all like that.

But we need your help.

Okay.

Right.

Hey, how do you think you can help us, man?

Well, I know some people.

I know you know some people.

Right?

Can you help us?

Yeah, I'll get them together.

Myself.

Personally.

Good.

Okay.

Good.

Good.

What about Chris, is she around?

- Chris is here.

- I am right here!

Yeah.

Very good.

How are you doing?

Real good.

Hey, listen, how can you help us with the Valentine's festival?

You know.

How about some cookies?

Beautiful.

I can bake some cookies.

Yeah, out of sight, out of sight.

Well, you two take it easy.

Okay, talk to you, bye Bill.

I see the institutional people has been labeled, mentally disturbed people as being labeled crazy.

Okay.

I've been married 22 years and be away from them 17, 18.

They you crazy, you see?

So I can relate with crazy people because I'm crazy.

We want to feed ten, 900, 1000 people.

You know, know four course turkey dinners and stuff.

Like, I don't have the money, you know, for free, you know, and you want to get jobs for 2 or 300 people, you know, and have none to pay them.

You're crazy.

But these are things we've been able to do through faith.

Through promise.

Through god, he said we could do it.

Yeah, I guess Let's go Because a person 21 years old doesn't make them grown either.

And they have a lot of learning to do.

You go through high school, their going to college, and we'll all like that.

And at the end of their schooling, they still don't know what they want to be.

They know what the others want them to be.

So there's no kind of They don't know what they want to do They find out exactly what time do they know all your timing of your children and your parents coming in and really dependent on you, out to you.

Okay.

Well, I'm gonna let you go.

We gotta think of something.

Okay.

What do you think?

Okay, thanks.

I'm gonna need that.

Leave that the world.

Oh my.

What do we need?

We need a substitute.

We need something happening quick.

Like what?

You know, we're gonna have a party.

A real sweetheart's party.

Okay, everybody.

Everybody knows that.

I'm just joking.

Social worker or person coming out in school from school?

Social worker, if you agree.

Once, at least no less than $9,000.

Okay.

But they had no practical experience.

Okay.

So what employer's going to pay on the teachers So is stranger things can turn... We accept one another.

You know what I mean?

I want to see my kind of people help.

I want to see my kind of people happy.

My people are not a color.

My people are not of size or age.

But they are a kind.

People with love.

People who have real, true free love.

And God say nobody, nobody, nobody but you.

This is real true, honest to God, free love.