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Emig: Day 6: ACES: Breaking the cycle: Tulsa Big Brother shows the power of being there for a child

Linda Manaugh · 7/15/1910:57 AM

Ryan McDaniel’s first experience in Big Brothers Big Sisters was with an 11-year-old boy from south Dallas named Sherman. “He was poor. His father was incarcerated. His mother was in and out of different issues relative to drugs,” McDaniel said. “He couldn’t read, and he was getting pushed through the public school system down there. On top of that, he had been shot, supposedly on accident, when he was 4 years old.” On their first outing, McDaniel took Sherman bowling. Sherman bowled one...

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Emig: Day 6: ACES: Breaking the cycle: Tulsa Big Brother shows the power of being there for a child

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