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My days in Juvenal Detention

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  If you know me, I would think you would consider me an affable character.  However, did you know I spent days in Juvenal Detention?  As Paul Harvey would say, here is the rest of the story. Have a particularly good friend Nick whom I’ve known for decades.   From riding local mountain bike trails to mission trips in far off, and crazy places.   We have seen and experienced a lot together.   Now days Nick works as a carpenter extraordinaire, and has a contract with a local interior design company.   He installs high-end closets and pantries for mostly new home construction in particularly nice homes.   These installs are constructed of large and heavy puzzle pieces, and that’s where I enter the story.   I help him as a part-time assistant installer.   This past week instead of working on new homes, we have been installing closets and a pantry in the local juvenal detention center.   We have been working up close and personal ne...