stephanie: candace mcduffie and maura johnston, what a pleasure to have you. maura: thank you.r more than two decades, mark kirwan served the people of washington, d.c., as a city police officer. but a few years ago, feeling lost amid covid and after the made an unusual choice, moving from fighting crime to rescuing horses, with a mix of purpose and poetry, he told us his story. ♪ mark: i shall gather up all the lost souls that wonder this earth, all the ones that are alone and broke, all the ones that never really fitted in, i shall gather them all up, and, together, we shall find a new home. so we have already fed our barren horses. we start feeding them around 5:30, 6:00 in the morning. i am mark kirwan, from a very small town. i came to the states and initially in the early 1990's, worked on a horse farm here in virginia, ended up getting involved in law enforcement, working in law enforcement for 21 years. i always kept my foot in the door with horses and the echoing business -- equine business. three years ago, i bought this place in upper county in the foothills of the s