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Dion's odyssey

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Shackled by the stereotype of being a North End kid, Dion thought his way out lay in money and drugs. But addiction and a deal gone bad almost cost him his life. A chance encounter at United Way partner Rossbrook House turned his life around and set him on a new path, one that led him back to the very community he'd sought to abandon.