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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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early in my eighth grade year, my dad had suggested to me that I attended all boys high school across town from where we lived. Although I definitely wasn't excited at first, especially at the prospect of not having any girls in high school, he left a final choice up to me. Ultimately, I decided to go largely because the all boys school had a successful basketball program and basketball was my favorite sport. In an ironic twist, I got cut from the basketball team that first year. I was extremely disappointed and lost. I seriously considered going back to my previous school, where I knew I already fit in and I could easily make the team. That would have been the simple and easy route. But I also wondered if I could dig deep and overcome this obstacle. Was I going to believe that I'm not good enough to play at my new school? Or could I find a way to work hard and make the team next season? We all experience positive, a negative self talk like this on a regular basis. Whether you realize it or not, you're probably having the same internal conversations over and over every day. These two opposing voices compete for our mindset. Every day in every minute, one of our clients needed a mattress. Su suite. My paralegal social worker called one of the veteran mentors. Wham! He's got the mattress. He's got the box spring. It's already in his apartment. Wow, He came to court. He said, I really want to thank Sue Sweet. I want to thank Frank Grillo. I want to thank Jack O Connor. They make it happen. They make it happen for these veterans. That causes my clients to say, You know what? I'm going to step up. I'm going to work harder at this. I'm a part of this court, Adds Phil Eppolito, assistant mentor coordinator for the Buffalo Veterans Court. What makes more sense to you? Take a veteran, throw him in jail, where the cost could be five times more than what the cost could be. Forgetting that veteran help or take that veteran and give him the opportunity to help himself to turn his life around. Putting veterans if they qualify into a treatment court, he offers makes sense and dollars and cents to me