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JOHN DAVID GRAHAM is the founder and executive director of Good Samaritan Home, a non-profit social service agency in Ohio, offering ex-offenders reentry housing and mentoring support. He is the author of an academic book, Citizen Circle: A Mentoring Model for Rehabilitating Ex-offenders in Darke County, Ohio, that documents the positive impact that mentoring ex-offenders has on the community.

Prior to that he was a door-to-door salesman, a children’s home counselor, substitute school teacher, truck driver, fireman, building contractor, minister and a journalist. Sometimes the road home takes many twists and turns.

That long road and winding road is the best preparation for writing. John’s philosophy is the best writing occurs after a life h ...more

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I am excited to share that I received my first-ever editorial review today - 5 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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"All Daniel Robinson ever wanted was a normal loving family. To escape an abusive father and mentally ill mother, he leaves home at sixteen to seek refuge with a pastor. But a man he believed would protect him — a man he should have been able to trust implic Read more of this blog post »

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“I tried to be normal. I did everything all of you asked me to do. I ran harder and longer than anyone else just to catch up.
But look where it got me.”
― John David Graham, Running as Fast as I Can

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