i am devin fox. i am a person who is in long-term recovery. what that means for me is that i haven't used a drink or a drug in over 3 years. and recovery has really provided me with a life that's really worth living, something that i never had before. to look at my dreams that i thought were totally dead, totally dead. i didn't think i was going to go back to school. i didn't think i was going to graduate with my bachelor's. i didn't think i was going to go right back into my master's to get my m.s.w. but that's what this house gave me, the opportunity to do that. it doesn't keep me clean, but, like, it gave the idea that, like, a way that i could do something better. when someone walks into the recovery house and they are in recovery themselves, they get an instant sense of being at home and familiarity. like, it's truly a day of homecoming for them. they get a sense of feeling of safety and belonging, which on a college campus with 48,000 people, many of whom are partying on a thursday or friday night. to have other people that are like you

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