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AHRON PATTERSON: Foster Child That Found ABA l RTH PODCAST #19

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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hi everyone and welcome to this interview I'm your host Sunny Gigi and it's my pleasure to introduce today's guest today we have Owen coming from the foster care system for Alon religion was just a word surrounded by highly negative people and being dragged down to the lowest point of his life Rabbi ruin helps him find his way out we're very excited to have him here with us today to share his journey and his experience so without further Ado let's get into it [Music] okay so today we have Aron with us thank you very much for taking the time uh coming on to the podcast and are willing to you know share your story with us and with other people can you tell us a little bit about yourself um you know kind of your growing up and uh you know what what life was like for you uh you know before chuba and pre chuba days and just just a little uh background about yourself I don't have a little back I a lot of background that's even better so I'm a foster child I went through the foster care system and for me religion wasn't really real it was just a word most people they grow up and their parents are Catholic or bosim or Jewish and that's why they are as they are until they change it or they fall out but for me it was nothing it was just a word I grew up in Crown VI but before that like my earliest memories were from upstate New York on a farm and that was the most and the one of me very strong

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  1. 0:00hi everyone and welcome to this interview I'm your host Sunny Gigi and it's my pleasure
  2. 5:50like a a desire to to not be that into the things I was into I
  3. 12:15speaking to some of my old friends from as and they mentioned that perhaps you should
  4. 18:15or another not because we want it but because that's America for you did you ever
  5. 24:37at me it was just like Hi how are you but you're not here you're in
  6. 31:11situations where you know you're in a bit of trouble andem kind of helped you out
  7. 37:05says that they all asked what was inside it and they all found figured out different
  8. 43:28and two I'm able to be more confident in my in my shabas keeping like I
  9. 49:22imagine a outcome that you would have designed desired today what if I was religious what
  10. 55:39core eor of the abusers and I would say to that yid you shouldn't take that

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