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Originally Posted by Nucky
We have several tough cookies in our neighborhood who everyone has shunned because of past behavior or their record or the way they look. They don't scare me at all because they may be salvageable. Sometimes all they need is some good advice and a ear to listen to their tale of woe. Some once they find out that I won't be their banker, taxi, motel, you get the idea stop talking because they can't operate on you. Helping people is one of life's biggest rewards that many people never experience. I overdid it a few times in the beginning and got into some scary situations. I learned. I don't judge these people who live with their parents in TV because there is always more to the story than meets the eye and its non of my business. I hope they have happy productive sober lives.
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I worry more about the people who have no support systems like their parents. I do not know what I would have done in my complicated situation if I did not have a loving albeit at times somewhat dysfunctional immediate and extended family. And they have allowed me to make quite a huge impact with my 26 year 224 613 Project unlike in the setting of a university or in most corporations I have been involved with where they do almost everything through committees and meetings. Does that light bulb in the foyer need changing? Let's set up a committee to find just the right light bulb and person to change it. I have been in a lot of meetings at Information Access Company, the U of Denver Penrose Library, Englewood Public Library (CO), the University of Minnesota Law Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners, Palm Harbor Library and East Lake Community Library (near Palm Harbor). But with the Reno, Nevada area partnership I was an Assistant Manager (most of the six years I was there) with Farwell and Mikkelson; Craig or Richard would just tell us- Do that!-- and we did it. Not the teen age girls that much though I "supervised" at Farwell and Mikkelson. I just tried to limit the trouble they might get into.
Craig Farwell later became the Warden at the Nevada State Prison in Lovelock, Nevada. Can see him doing that as he knew how to lay down the law except with the teenage daughters of women he had befriended in some way who worked under me at times. They kind of did what they wanted when Craig was not eyeing them.
I would bet that some of those people in the prison in Lovelock got into so much trouble because they had no reliable support system. Then there would have been others who were basically just not very nice people like with some of the prisoners I met at the Minnesota Correctional Facility--Stillwater when I worked with Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners.