KEVIN - PAYING IT FORWARD

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My name is Kevin, I’m sixteen years old. I like soccer and ping pong. I love Greek mythology. Greek, Roman mythology. Greek and Roman military sword fighting styles.

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Fun Things You Like To Do?

Fun things I like to do, um, never done it but I want to go wakeboarding. Wakeboarding looks really cool. Uh, ping pong, soccer. Um, and piano. All those.

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Definition of Family?

The word family to me means, your own flesh and blood. Uh, someone, you can take care of. Someone who takes care of you. Someone that you’ll never forget, someone that you’ll always hold a special place in your heart for. Blood or not -- or flesh and blood doesn’t even matter. Family is family.

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A New Family?

I’ve never had a real male figure in my life that I can -- that I can-that is there for me. But a male figure. I want like a father. A little sister. A little sister and brother, actually. I want another brother. I like to -- I like to rough house with my brother.

I want to play sports. Clean house -- clean heart, clean mind. No drugs, no alcohol, no family that’s struggling. A normal family, normal issues, normal house.

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How Others Describe You?

What my friends will say about me -- I’m a people person, definitely. When I make a friend, I can -- I keep it. I can make people happy.

I can give good advice, and [sighs] you-you can get to know me fast. I don’t stay mad long. I don’t hold grudges.

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Helping Others?

I’ve been in the state’s custody for almost fourteen years, and I know what being torn down is like. So, and -- so, you learn not to let it bother you, and you learn to build other people up. So, I wanna -- someone built me up once so I wanna- I wanna pass it on.

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Hidden Talents?

I have a good taste of fashion. Might not seem like it right now, cause I’ve got about sixteen different colors on me, so my shoes are two tone, so, you know, [laughs] it might not seem like it but -- I came here with a ton of suitcases. Don’t even know where half the stuff came from, but I’ve got a good sense in fashion.

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Proudest Moment?

I’m just ready to settle down. [Clears throat] I’ve been bouncing around from place to place, an-and I always blamed it on other people but hands down it’s because of me. No one can force you to do anything, and, you know, there’s no invisible force moving my hands, telling me to do this, like, my decisions I made. And, I was in the wrong.

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Paying It Forward
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