My father died unexpectedly when I was a teenager. My surviving family wrote me off as a lost cause and I spent years struggling with addiction, poverty, grief, and a general lack of guidance. Predators, I learned, have a special talent for identifying children who are vulnerable and lacking familial support.

I sometimes cant believe how severely it changed the trajectory of my life.

A Saturday morning litter cleanup at a park near the highway, and then laying around my girlfriend’s house until Monday.