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Rene Meshake

Can anybody really touch you if you live in a shell? Just ask Rene.

I had been living on the streets for years. I used a lot of alcohol and drugs to put a lid on things, to cope with life better. I had no soul, no feeling for anything beautiful or whole. It’s like living in a shell, a shell of a human being. Friends I hung out with started to die off. They would go in a coma and never come out. I started to see death everywhere. I met this man from a United Way agency. I saw him enough to trust someone for the first time in my entire life. I went to the agency he recommended that was also funded by United Way.

I started to feel alive, full, and to enjoy another human being, to enjoy hugging, especially hugging. For the first time in my life I have something to hold on to. I am married and my wife and I are raising our son. I’m paying a mortgage and I have started my own successful business. I’m an artist and I’m creating a world of my own.

Thank you for giving. Your money got to me.