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“I was a good kid. While in school, I made good grades.   Until I began drinking and using drugs. At the time, it was the “cool” thing to do. My use first began affecting my grades and then I started getting into trouble.” This is how Terry starts his story.

Almost two years ago, I wasn’t working.  I was a stay-at-home mom.  I lived in a home with my future ex-husband and two teenage kids.  The house was a 3 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath house on a cul-de-sac with a garage as well as a backyard and a deck.  You never

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Mike Johnson* was born in Fayetteville, NC and spent a lot of time with his dad in a family business installing floors and carpeting.   Mike’s dad was a Navy man and served eight years at the end of the Korean War. Mike enlisted in the Navy himself so he “could

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Tasty and Homegrown: Good Shepherd Center Holds Fundraiser to hail ‘The Flavor of NC’ Encore Magazine Good Shepherd Center has been housing and feeding people in need for 30 years in our Cape Fear region. What started as a soup kitchen in 1983 has evolved into much more. Today they